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Take the 4/5 with a grain of salt. They surveyed 1,000 insured & 1,000 uninsured people. That over represents the uninsured which likely over represents those that took on CC debt.

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I would think it is fairly common knowledge that insulin is rather expensive in the US, and while the sample size is small, anecdotal evidence from my experience in health IT and working with social determinants of health seems to indicate that debt with diabetes is fairly common.

I don't think it is a stretch to assume that these high medical costs, specifically insulin are forcing patients into debt.

I feel like even if 100% of the uninsured took on debt, that would mean 60% of the insured aren't getting it covered enough to avoid taking on debt, which is pretty wild.

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