Medical Bills Leading Cause of Bankruptcy: Don’t Let Work Comp. or Personal Injury Bills Send You Into Financial Ruin

I ran across an interesting article in the Hutchinson Leader about the rates of bankruptcy filings related to medical bills. Dr. David Himmelstein, a professor of public health at City University in New York and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School noted that medical-related bankruptcies went up substantially between 2002 and 2007, even before the economic recession began.

Interestingly, the vast majority of people filing for bankruptcy due to medical bills actually had some form of insurance. Dr. Himmelstein noted that “[m]ost people who are driven into bankruptcy by illness and medical bills actually have coverage, but it’s such inadequate coverage that it doesn’t keep them from financial ruin…they’re facing huge premiums and copayments and deductibles – and things that aren’t covered by their insurance.”

Dr. Himmelstein cautions against targeting public-sector health benefits and benefits through health and human services for budget cuts. Leaving people with worse coverage will lead to more people incurring greater medical expenses.

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