The Spark

the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist

“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx

Medical Debt Lawsuits

April 20, 2026

Hospitals’ medical clinics in Virginia filed more than a million lawsuits against patients to collect medical debt between 2010 and 2024. That’s around one every minute! In a quarter of the cases, the court let them garnish the patient’s wages. But the main reason workers have medical debt is because our wages and benefits don’t cover the outrageous level of our heath care bills!