New research says 100 million in U.S. saddled with debt from health care

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A Kaiser Health News poll finds one-quarter of American adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000 and one in five of those who have any debt say they don’t expect to ever pay it off. CBS News consumer investigative correspondent Anna Werner spoke with a family whose medical debt continues to follow them.
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