Eric Novack points to an article debunking a bankruptcy study by a single-payer fanatic.
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I seem to recall that addictive disease (alcohol, substance abuse, gambling, etc.) got counted as “illness” for the purpose of counting a “medical” bankruptcy. So if the person is a drug addict, got medical treatment as part of his addiction, the medical bill was the cause of his bankruptcy. Never mind the money spent supporting the addiction.
The problem with papers authored by Himmelstein and/or Woolhandler is, you know what the conclusions will be. You just have to figure out where they hid the bias this time.
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