Kayce Atencio, who had a heart attack when he was 19, was unable to rent an apartment for years because of bad credit attributed in part to thousands of dollars of medical debt. “It always felt like I just couldn’t get a leg up,” says Atencio, one of millions of Americans whose access to housing is threatened by medical debt. Rachel Woolf / KFF Health News
Noam N. LeveyKaiser Health News For millions of Americans, the cost of health care is threatening their ability to stay housed Kayce Atencio used to…
