Still Looking to Screw People, You Are

by Karl Denninger
Market-Ticker.org

I want Bob Hertz’s full bio.

The recent proposal by Sen. Bernie Sanders to cancel $81 billion of medical debt is a very good start – but it is only a start.

The RIP Medical Debt group–which buys old medical debts ,and then forgives them– is absolutely in the right spirit. Its founders Craig Antico and Jerry Ashton deserve great credit for keeping the issue of forgiveness alive.

Unfortunately, over $88 billion in new medical debt is created each year – most of it still held by providers, or sold to collectors, or embedded in credit card balances.

Tragically, none of this has to happen! In France, a visit to the doctor typically costs the equivalent of $1.12 . A night in a German hospital costs a patient roughly $11. German co-pays for the year in-total cannot exceed 2% of income, Even in Switzerland, the average deductible is $300.

Note that, if you read the article, the byline is “Bob Hertz, a health care essayist.”

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