If you read the story it is not that they are jailed for the unpaid bills but for skipping 2 court hearings about the bills. If they had followed the procedures and appeared as ordered they would not have been jailed. This is an example of sensationalizing headlines to present the networks (CBS) agenda.
I agree that we need to do something to reduce medical costs. (I just paid out $200.00 at C.V.S. Saturday and $80.00 in Co-Pays to be seen.) It affects everyone and I Do not have the answers. But this headline was misleading to say the least.
My son has terminal brain cancer and is on an experimental drug that costs one thousand dollars per day. He used to be on Imbruvica which was only about twelve thousand a month.
It’s nuts.