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Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who are in debt despite their best efforts - we should be helping these people, who I believe are a minority of a
by time_management 18y ago
Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of people who are in debt despite their best efforts - we should be helping these people, who I believe are a minority of all people in debt.
You are wrong on the Internet. Most people in debt are in that situation because of uncovered medical bills.
- potatolicious 18y agoHmm... Point taken. My perspective is distinctively Canadian, and massive unpaid medical bills are quite rare around here :S The majority of "poor" people I know personally are there because of their own indiscretions.
- krschultz 18y agoYes but in the US, the vast majority of bankruptcies are due to our crappy healthcare. A better fix would be to work out a health care system that didn't have such a terrible side effect and then those in bankruptcy would have done something wrong rather than being screwed by a crappy deal in life.
- time_management 18y agoThe motto of for-profit medicine: "Save the body, ruin the life".
- ig1 18y agocitation ?
- time_management 18y agohttp://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&itemid=1439 http://newstandardnews.net/content/?action=show_item&ite... I'm slightly wrong. It's "half", as "most" requires that the proportion be strictly greater than 50.0%. I'm off by epsilon. Also, I meant to say "in bankruptcy"-- or, more appropriately, "in unmanageable debt"-- rather than "in debt".