MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'increasing bankruptcies'. Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:30:07 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=2452748&cid=t_244285_111_f&fid=36048&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.b5media.com%2F%7Er%2Fb5media%2FAHeartyLife%2F%7E3%2F7_WwNKsS9CU%2F Almost 2/3 of personal bankruptcies in the United States are the result of illness and overwhelming medical bills, despite having health insurance, say researchers. This is a 50% increase from 2001, just 8 years ago. And, it’s important to note 2 things. One is that bankruptcy is harder to declare now than it was before 2001 and that this research was done before the current economic situation, so the situation could, in fact, be worse. Researchers from Harvard Law School, Harvard Medical School and Ohio University worked together to produce the first known study of this type to cover the entire country. They found that the vast majority (over 77%) of the people who went bankrupt were among those who did have health insurance when they first became ill. According to a press release d... A Hearty Life blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=2452748 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:30:21 +0100 2452748