The last statistics I saw indicate that more than half of all bankruptcies in the U.S. were due to high medical bills. This held true regardless of insurance status. Our medical system is broken and if you have a health problem, you get hit with the double whammy of high medical bills and lowered productivity. In most cases, it has nothing to do with being irresponsible.
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The last statistics I saw indicate that more than half of all bankruptcies in the U.S. were due to high medical bills. This held true regardless of insurance status. Our medical system is broken and if you have a health problem, you get hit with the double whammy of high medical bills and lowered productivity. In most cases, it has nothing to do with being irresponsible.
What I saw was that half of all bankruptcies involved some medical bills. The number actually caused by high medical bills is a lot lower.