In the US, what happens if you sustain a life threatening injury and you don't have insurance?

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Assuming nobody else is at fault

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“ student loans (25.5%)”

This seems odd to me because bankruptcy doesn’t currently get rid of student loans (which is completely wtf, but that’s another issue); maybe the student loan payments got so onerous that they got into other debt?

Federal student loans have exceptions to bankruptcy. Private student loans are subject to normal bankruptcy proceedings--much though they may imply they are not.

Ahhh, I wasn’t even thinking about private loans; yeah, that makes sense!