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12/19/09 3:33 PM

#17943 RE: handbelleditor #17942

As a Canadian I find stuff like this just unfathomable, just cannot even imagine it.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bills/index.html


# Study: More than 60 percent of bankruptcies are linked to medical bills
# Three-quarters of people with a medically-related bankruptcy had health insurance
# Researcher: "You're one illness away from financial ruin in this country"
# Situation likely to worsen: study was done a year before recession