Medical Economics August 8, 2024
Study examines costs that build up when health care workers go to school or get sick.
Physicians aren’t the only health care workers carrying educational debt.
A new study estimated total educational and medical debt among American health care workers. The costs: $134.4 billion a year for school and $19.8 billion a year for health care.
“U.S. health care workers are more likely than other workers to carry medical and educational debt, collectively owing more than $150 billion,” authors Kathryn E.W. Himmelstein, MD, MSEd, and Alexander C. Tsai, MD, said in the study. “We found that medical debt was more prevalent among women, home health and nursing home personnel, uninsured individuals, and those with recent hospitalization. Educational debts disproportionately burdened...
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