re: This deserves it's own thread

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The medical excuse covers 2 areas. 1) they lost income during the medical duress. 2) the bills are still there from the medical duress. As deeprig said, medical bills are nowhere near as damaging/suffocating as credit or installment debt. The root cause of the issue was the lost income on an otherwise maxed out lifestyle. The "medical bills" catch the reason in those pretty surveys, though.

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That's the problem. We have professionals who spend their entire lives doing something, and some dude (it's actually a lot of people from many political camps - but in America it's more on the right than anywhere else) comes by and says I'm not going to listen to you because I don't like what you found.

It's counterproductive.

Go back to UGA, become an economists or statistician, spend time learning the macroeconomics undergirding medical finance, then come talk to me about why they're wrong.

OR tell me where this number came from and why they're biased and show me who has the right information and why they're right instead. Also, just in case we need to state the obvious, "I don't know shite, but this guy is on my side," is woefully fricking insufficient.