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Tom Brosz — (archived)

The original paper can be found here. Would give a lot to see a copy of the questionaire.

Another, somewhat broader article on the reasons for personal bankruptcy can be found here.

For my own part, the heaviest financial load on me over the past years, as a self-employed contractor in my income bracket, has been paying taxes.

The motivation of the widespread media exposure of this study, if not the study itself, is pretty transparent. The pursuit by the Left of an eventual government monopoly on medical care is constant and single-minded, like a shark pursuing a struggling fish. Transferring control of this massive industry to Washington DC would give politicians immense power over the citizen, never mind the medical industry.

There is always political power to be had in dependence on the state, and there's a reason why almost every solution proposed by the Democratic Party for social and economic problems involves turning the problem over to the government.

This article discusses "ownership" in another context.

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