MEDICAL BANKRUPTCY

http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/2009/06/04/medical-bankruptcy-time-to-update-that-statistic/

Posted on June 4th, 2009 by Jason Rosenbaum in Profits Before People

Medical bills are behind more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, U.S. researchers reported on Thursday in a report they said demonstrates that healthcare reform is on the wrong track.

More than 75 percent of these bankrupt families had health insurance but still were overwhelmed by their medical debts, the team at Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University reported in the American Journal of Medicine.

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