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Andrea Junker :verified:onMastodon1d ago
Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ 0 ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ 0 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐ 0 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ฎ 0 ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท 0 ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช 0 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ธ 0 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช 0 ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น 0 ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต 0 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ 0 ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด 0 ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น 0 ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ 0 ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช 0 ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง 0 ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 530,000 Thereโ€™s a lesson there.
Trust Metrics
45
Accuracy
35
Framing
55
Context
70
Tone
Accuracy45%
Framing35%
Context55%
Tone70%
Analysis Summary
The US does have dramatically more medical bankruptcies than other wealthy nationsโ€”about 66.5% of US bankruptcies involve medical factors versus much smaller percentages elsewhere. But the claim that other countries have zero medical bankruptcies is false. Canada, the UK, and Australia all experience them at lower ratesโ€”Canada at around 19%, UK at 8.2%, Australia at 10%โ€”due to universal healthcare systems that reduce (but don't eliminate) this risk. The post cherry-picks a dramatic visual by using the 530,000 figure (which includes lost income from illness, not just bills) while showing other nations at zero, obscuring the real story: the US system is fundamentally broken compared to other developed nations, but not uniquely soโ€”it's a matter of degree, not kind.
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Rating Three Pinocchios
Claimed by Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sandersโ€™s false claim on 500,000 bankruptcies โ†—
Claims Analysis (1)
โ€œNumber of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: United States 530,000; all listed countries 0โ€
530,000 figure is accurate but represents broad definition including illness-related work loss. Other developed nations do experience medical bankruptciesโ€”at lower rates but not zero.
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