• Sesso emphasizes that RIP’s growing business is nothing to celebrate. It means that millions of people have fallen victim to a U.S. insurance and health care system that’s simply too expensive and too complex for most people to navigate. As NPR and KHN have reported, more than half of U.S. adults say they’ve gone into debt in the past five years because of medical or dental bills, according to a KFF poll. A quarter of adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000. And about 1 in 5 with any amount of debt say they don’t expect to ever pay it off.

    i’m definitely glad these guys recognize that their “business” existing at all is a pretty bad indictment of the system and that ideally they wouldn’t need to do this at all. hopefully bigger policies are also eventually coming from above so people aren’t relying on stuff like this to get out of the hole, tbh