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Originally Posted by Rich
What? That makes absolutely no sense, sorry. Now you're just posting jiberish and hoping people will stop reading this thread because you look so stupid. I'm yes???
Over half of American bankruptcies are caused by medial bills. That's what I said. You called me a liar. I linked to an AP news story regarding a study that proves that fact, not the only one but a very good one.
Tell me again how I'm wrong?
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The study, to be published online Wednesday by the
journal Health Affairs, distributed questionnaires to
1,771 bankruptcy filers in 2001 in California,
Illinois, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Texas. That
year, there were 1.46 million personal bankruptcies in
the United States.
Illness and medical bills were cited as the cause, at
least in part, for 46.2 percent of the personal
bankruptcies in the study. Himmelstein said the figure
rose to 54.5 percent when three other factors were
counted as medical-related triggers for bankruptcies:
births, deaths and pathological gambling addiction.
I see less than 50% of 1771 bankruptcies caused by medical issues until you add in "pathological gambling addiction."
no wonder you're so gullible with other stuff, you're unable to see how a poll is twisted for a desired effect (think john kerry, pre election)
Show me something that says there aren't hundreds of thousands of bankruptcies per year in the US caused by medial bills.
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Originally Posted by Rich
I guess the way to figure out if you're right or wrong in a situation is, just throw all the facts out the window, and if you want to be right, agree with 12clicks.
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No, its to look at all the bankruptcy records (not just 1771 of them) and find out the answers.
you see under 2000 and accept an extrapolation into the millions?
typical.