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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: John Koligman who wrote (4299)	2/5/2008 6:31:05 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) of 42652

There's some explaining that needs to be done here, John. "In our society today, revisions to the bankruptcy laws and changes in consumer attitude toward bankruptcy have fostered a climate in which people regard bankruptcy as a more plausible remedy for financial problems than they once did—a fact that recent statistics support. In 1988 there were 549,612 personal bankruptcies in our country. By 1998, 10 years later, there were a total of 1,398,182 personal bankruptcies in America and another 44,367 business bankruptcies. In the year 2001 there were almost 1.5 million personal bankruptcies filed. Assuming that this trend continues, we can realistically expect to see two million bankruptcies each year by the year 2008!" Now if illness is the prime cause of bankruptcy (which it would be if it caused even half), we HAVE to assume tha t the serious illness rate of the US population TRIPLED in the 13 years between 1988 and 2001. Caqn you think of a reason why it would?

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