US consumer borrowing rises to record $2.75T

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11. I almost ended up in a similar situation with medical bills

I'm an American living outside the US and have insurance where I live, but of course none in the US. When I visited home last year I was in the hospital for 5 days with pneumonia and ran up a bill in excess of $30,000. I had to be isolated in a room for most of the time and have special treatment as I had waited so long to go to a hospital. Thankfully I ended up going to the closest hospital to where I was staying. In the end their foundation covered all the costs except for a $140 I paid for external charges. I was extremely lucky.

That being said, I still have student loans which are much much worse.