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llness May Lead To Bankruptcy In The U.S.
http://www.healthtalk.ca/medical_bankruptcy_020505_37733.php
llness May Lead To Bankruptcy In The U.S.
February 05, 2005
The thought of getting ill and
losing everything you own is frightening and a new study confirms that Americans
may be just one illness away from going bankrupt.
Close to half of all personal
bankruptcies in the U.S. are caused by illness and medical bills, researchers
said this week.
The study, which appears in
journal Health Affairs, estimated that personal bankruptcies, which they
describe as "medical bankruptcies" affect as many as 2 million Americans every
year. The frightening part of the study says many of the people had health
insurance.
"Our study is frightening. Unless
you're Bill Gates you're just one serious illness away from bankruptcy," said
Dr. David Himmelstein, lead study author from Harvard University.
Himmelstein said most of the
medically bankrupt were just average Americans who got ill. About 75 percent of
the bankruptcy filers were insured when they first became ill.
For their findings, researchers
looked at federal court records of 1,771 people who filed personal bankruptcy in
five US states. Among these, the team conducted more indepth interviews with 931
of them.
Medical bills contributed greatly
to the debt of those who filed bankruptcy. Out-of-pocket costs averaged $11,854
for those who became ill, and for those with cancer, medical debts averaged
$35,878.
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