All too true! Around 62% of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are due to medical bills – and 3/4 of them had medical insurance. Also, a third of GoFundMe campaigns are families desperate to pay health care bills. But try to get universal health care or a single-payer system here, and right-wing pundits howl about every wino getting a free liver transplant. The horror stories that our so-called health care system generates in just one year would fill a book as thick as any volume in the “Song of Ice and Fire” series.
All too true! Around 62% of all personal bankruptcies in the U.S. are due to medical bills – and 3/4 of them had medical insurance. Also, a third of GoFundMe campaigns are families desperate to pay health care bills. But try to get universal health care or a single-payer system here, and right-wing pundits howl about every wino getting a free liver transplant. The horror stories that our so-called health care system generates in just one year would fill a book as thick as any volume in the “Song of Ice and Fire” series.