As Americans begin to demand serious health care reform, insurance companies and creditors that fund medical bills directly and through credit cards and home equity loans could lose a lot of money. So the Judiciary Sub-Committee hearings on medical bankruptcies last week must have been a little scary. Representatives from both parties seemed to agree that there was a problem in how America pays for health care and that many good families are suffering. For one of the witnesses, the display of sympathy from both Democrats and Republicans was too much to bear.
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