Americans are struggling to pay medical bills and are accumulating medical debt at an increasing rate, according to a survey released today. "A perfect storm of negative economic trends is battering working families across the United States," said the survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that supports independent research on health care. "Health-care costs are climbing much more rapidly than incomes or the growth in the overall economy," said Sara R. Collins, assistant vice president of the foundation and one of the authors of the ... (more)