Americans drowning in Debt - South hit hardest

Nationwide, nearly 1 in 5 households has medical debt in collections with a median amount of $681. But again, that particular number varies broadly: The prevalence of past-due medical debt is 10 times higher in Louisiana (30 percent) than it is Minnesota (3 percent).

In many counties in Texas and Louisiana, over 60 percent of the population carries past-due medical debt.


".... researchers looked at this relationship(between health insurance coverage and debt owed) nationwide and found that “a 1 percentage-point increase in the share of population without health insurance is associated with a 0.16 percentage-point increase in the likelihood of having debt in collections and a 1.3 percent increase (equal to $20) in the average amount of debt in collections.”


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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/12/08/americans-are-drowning-in-debt-heres-where-they-have-it-the-worst/?utm_term=.5a85c151af75

Looking at the maps- It looks like a political map of Rep/Dem states or min. wage states