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"Medical Bills Bankrupting Many"--Article for the Class fr PW

In 2005, this news story was featured on CBS news. What do you think?

Medical Bills Bankrupting Many:

Costly illnesses trigger about half of all personal bankruptcies, and health insurance
offers no protection against ending up penniless, according to findings from a Harvard University study to be released Wednesday.

(To view the entire article, visit the link provided below).

Esterbrook, J. (2005, Feb. 2). Medical bills bankrupting many. Retrieved from
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/02/national/main671145.shtml.

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I must agree with this article. In terms of medical bills, the costs, even for minimal illness is very high, so any illness that takes expensive treatment will definitely make a difference in the ability of someone to pay their debts. The working of the system, paying for the medical treatment and in many cases losing work time to have treatments, would work to ...

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