Illness can bring credit card pain

Peggie Sherry has health insurance, but since being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2003, her uninsured costs have soared to $40,000.

About $15,000 of that went on three credit cards.

"We did not want to put those bills on credit cards, but we didn't have a choice," said Sherry, 50, who runs the Faces of Courage Foundation, a Tampa organization that provides camps for cancer patients. "It was either that or not get treatment for a disease that was trying to kill me."

Sherry puts a face on a growing national issue: credit card debt incurred to pay medical bills.

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