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True but irrelevant, since there is a huge difference between being bankrupted by the medical system itself, and bankrupted because you can't afford not to work (which can happen for many other reasons and is a separate problem to guard oneself against).



I don't think it's irrelevant at all. People throw out the statistic that X% of Americans go bankrupt because of medical problems inferring it's because we don't have single-payer healthcare.

The statistic about Canada backs up the idea that isn't true.


It doesn't back up the idea at all. The bankruptcies in Canada have nothing to do with medical costs.




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