US Health Care Financing System is Broken - Most Bankruptcies Due To Medical Debt

Posted by admin | Mortgages, Predatory Lending | Tuesday 7 July 2009

“The US health care financing system is broken, and not only for the poor and uninsured”  According to a recent study in The American Journal of Medicine, middle-class families are collapsing under the strain of “a health care system that treats physical wounds, but often inflicts fiscal ones”.
The study, (http://pnhp.org/new_bankruptcy_study/Bankruptcy-2009.pdf) claims that 62.1% of all bankruptcies filed [...]

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