Eric Novack links to yet another nail in the coffin of that bogus bankruptcy study perpetrated by David Himmelstein. He calls Todd Zywicki’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee a “must read” for the following people:
Those who remember the endless headlines of “50% of All Bankruptcies Due to Medical Debt”, and particularly for those who […]
The Healthcare Economist has exhumed a hopelessly flawed study that was buried by the facts last February. As I discuss here, the preposterously high percentage of bankruptcies that its authors attributed to medical bills was shown by David Dranove and Michael Millenson to be wildly inconsistent with their own data:
A reexamination of their data suggests […]
One of the most persistent myths concerning our health care system involves the notion that medical bills are forcing huge numbers of ordinary middle class Americans into bankruptcy. This particular brand of BS has been promulgated not only by sloppy journalism, but by politicians who advocate a government takeover of American health care. Barack Obama, […]