An eye opening stat relevant to Bernie's Medicare for all healthcare proposal

[BernieforPres2016]

Again, from This Week with John Oliver (last night's episode):

52% of debt on credit reports (i.e. past due debts) is for medical bills.

We have 29 million people with no healthcare insurance, millions more with premiums and annual deductibles they are unable to afford, and every day people are driven into bankruptcy over medical bills they could never afford to pay.

[SheilaT]

1. And more than half of all bankruptcies

are because of enormous medical bills. And the vast majority of those declaring bankruptcy because of medical bills, had some sort of coverage. Clearly it's not enough.

[ghostsinthemachine]

2. I know quite a few people facing this

Sickening. Truly sickening when you pay high insurance and then get 80k in bills beyond what the insurance covers. Sickening.

[Bill USA]

3. which is why Obamacare was created - with no annual or lifetime coverage limits

[Old Codger]

4. You bet

Personally have burned through most of our savings and gone deep into the hole over medical bill in just the last year

[Cheese Sandwich]

5. That's very interesting.

It's awful the way we bankrupt people over health care costs. Health care is a human right.