Before Obama Care, 60% of all bankruptcies in the US were tied to medical bills.

"Medical bills ... are an issue that can very easily and in pretty short order overwhelm a lot of families."

"Unless you're a Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, you're one illness away from financial ruin in this country,"

Quote by lead author Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., of the Harvard Medical School, in Cambridge, Mass

Woolhandler and her colleagues surveyed a random sample of 2,314 people who filed for bankruptcy in early 2007, looked at their court records, and then interviewed more than 1,000 of them.

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/06/05/bankruptcy.medical.bills/
Found in: https://youtu.be/2GbkvEvWaQs?t=182