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No need. It's a known phenomenon. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/16/1104969627/medical-debt-upended-their-lives-heres-what-it-took-from-them
by TheOtherHobbes 1y ago
No need. It's a known phenomenon.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/16/1104969627/medical-debt-upended-their-lives-heres-what-it-took-from-them https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/06/16/1104969...
https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/medical-debt/ https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/medical-debt/
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2024/03/27/health-and-wealth-why-americans-are-drowning-in-medical-debt https://www.marketplace.org/story/2024/03/27/health-and-weal...
As for income distribution
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coefficient-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coef...
State GDP figures are skewed by high earners. The US is massively and systemically unequal, with far less economic mobility than the EU.
- tptacek 1y agoI asked a question about the comments on this thread. This isn't responsive to that question.