PBS NOW broadcast an interview with Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren this week. Professor Warren described her recent study as one of those situations where she and her colleagues were "knocked over by our own research".
Warren reports that half of all bankruptcy filings occur because of serious medical debt.
You can listen to the broadcast at http://www-tc.pbs.org/now/rss/media/news-306.mp3
Tags: bankruptcy, debt, Elizabeth Warren, health insurance, medical bills, medical expenses
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need for single payer health care particularly with advent of first wave of baby boomers in the face of deficit of $5T in social security money which has gone unpaid signals an urgent need to address correcting and rebounding to meet needs of the immediate citizen population.
i would be interested in accessing any data you may have for post grad work that examined models in place since slavery and preindustrialization in sore need to upgrade.
please, provide any information you may have or direct me to references to obtain such stats.
thank you.