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Originally Posted by BRISK
That's an amazing statistic.
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This is entirely my own conjecture, but I believe part of the reason why this happens is that people get their insurance through the workplace. If a serious or chronic illness occurs, the beancounters realize that this employee is going to be more liability than benefit and find ways to 'downsize' him/her.
I suspect that there's laws on the books to prevent this from happening (and if there isn't there should be), but ill people make for bad plaintiffs... and bankrupt + ill people doubly so. Hard to file legal briefs when you're on the corner rattling a cup for change to buy a crappy ass McD cheeseburger.
