WHY CAN’T LIBERALS DO ARITHMETIC?:  And why don’t they know how many people live in the United States?  Power Line points out that Bernie Sander’s press secretary asserted on Twitter that 500 million Americans “go bankrupt from medical debt every year.”  Good grief.  That is far more bankruptcies than there are Americans.  Power Line points out that only about 750,000 personal bankruptcies occur annually from any cause.  I can add that the proportion of those that were caused in any real sense by medical debt is quite small (though it is common for bankrupt person to have some medical debt in their overall debt along with lots of other kinds of debt).  It’s tragic when medical debt leads to bankruptcy, though it’s worth pointing out that’s why we have bankruptcy–to spare people in that kind of situation from permanent destitution and debtors’ prison.  It isn’t a punishment for debtors; it protects them.  It’s woefully ignorant to believe it’s happening 500 million times a year.