The American Journal of Public Health reported in 2019 that there were more than 500,000 medical bankruptices every year, and more than 250,000 medical expense

The American Journal of Public Health reported in 2019 that there were more than 500,000 medical bankruptices every year, and more than 250,000 medical expense related GoFundMe’s. In a country of nearly 400 million people this experience is not ‘average’ but it is well outside what would be considered normal in other developed countries. Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6366487/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6366487/