Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live with medical debt

Re:Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live ... by ohwellhere on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:02PM (#31767598)

At worst they'd put you as one of the 37% of people who haven't had to cut spending on food, clothing, or other basics.

Of course, 63% of the people with health care debt have (according to study).

So while your case is interesting from a technical point of view, it isn't really practically or morally interesting, and can only serve to detract from the important points of the study.

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Re:Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live ... by bombcar on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:12PM (#31767726)

These studies are always self-reporting and taken at much more than they actually say. Checking the methodology is important and should be done more often, especially on surveys based on self-reporting and not on large amounts of data.

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Re:Sick and struggling to pay, 100M people in the U.S. live ... by ohwellhere on Thursday June 16, 2022 @12:17PM (#31767800)

You are right. I tried to caveat my analysis with "(according to study)". My prior is not that the study is completely accurate, but that it is accurate enough to make the broader points described. I may be wrong, and you're right that everyone should be more cautious.

But I think there is a difference between cautioning neutrally (the comment I'm replying to now) versus obliquely cautioning in a way that casts doubt with negative consequences (the comment I replied to previously).

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