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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (13610)	2/26/2010 1:59:08 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

I know. They lie about that just like so much else. If people who declare bankruptcies have unpaid medical bills, they are depicted as going bankrupt for that reason. You could just as easily attribute most bankruptcies to auto loans, or credit cards, or mortgages .... or anything. Yeah, it was sort of a dead giveaway when the Harvard study not only considered it a "medical bankruptcy" if there were at least 5K in unpaid medical bills, but then failed to provide any data on the average liabilities for the respondents. Oh, and it didn't hurt that they paid the bankrupt respondents $50 for their answers. Question: "I'm John Doe and I'm doing a survey on whether medical bills cause bankruptcy. If you agree to participate, we'll pay you $50 for 5 minutes of your time. Did medical bills have anything to do with your recent bankruptcy?"