Nearly One-Third of US Workers <br />Have Medical Debt, Survey Says The survey comes from Salary Finance <br />and had over 2,700 participants. Of the 32 percent who claim <br />debt, over a quarter of them <br />owe $10,000 in medical bills. 54 percent of those in debt say they <br />have also defaulted on bills. 45 percent in the survey even say that just thinking about costs is giving them stress. Salary Finance U.S. CEO <br />Dan Macklin, via CNBC On average, the Bureau of Labor Statistics says <br />Americans spend $5,000 per year on out-of-pocket costs. Back in 1984, they used up<br />half of that amount. The bureau's Consumer Price Index also reveals that <br />medical care costs jumped 4.6 percent from 2018 to 2019. This was the biggest yearly<br />increase in over a decade.
