[vertak]

This was an informative counter-argument to what I normally read about US healthcare, thanks for taking the time to share this info.

This site gives several survey findings related to medical bankruptcy. The data is complex and conflicting at times (like you would expect given something as complex as 300+ million people’s healthcare) but the number that the stats seem to fluctuate around is 1 million people. 1 million people declare bankruptcy a year due to medical-related costs. That’s 0.333% per year.

So there are a lot of people (1 million if you believe the data in that link) per year being affected by this.

[TheRealDunkirk]

Medical reasons are now the leading cause of bankruptcy. (https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0310/top-5-reaso... -> 66.5%)

Half of all GoFundMe's are now medical-expense related.

These are absolutely indefensible statistics about our current system. Literally, anything else (already in use in other countries) would be better.