Poverty Is the 4th Leading Cause of Death in the US, Research Shows
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#2"Poverty, which the study defined as less than half the median U.S. income"
I wonder how much of this can be attributed to medical bankruptcy. If you cannot afford insurance, get injured, can't afford treatment...pretty straightforward doom loop to an early grave
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#3JFK on, inter alia, poverty (extended dance mix): http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/0510/jfk/05_-_Sing_Along_With_J...
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#4"Poverty, which the study defined as less than half the median U.S. income" I wonder how much of this can be attributed to medical bankruptcy. If you cannot afford insurance, get injured, can't afford treatment...pretty straightforward doom loop to an early grave
Democracy, the poor can't afford
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#6Outrageous, runaway medical costs are the cause. Not poverty.
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#7I became disabled in 2018. I have accumulated 5 figures in debt already since even while being on Cobra and now Medicare. This is criminal.
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#10I became disabled in 2018. I have accumulated 5 figures in debt already since even while being on Cobra and now Medicare. This is criminal.
Just don’t pay it. I wish I had been told this instead of flushing thousands upon thousands down the toilet in a futile attempt to keep the balance at $0. The system is designed to be adversarial and your best tactic as a patient is to delay, delay, delay and fight every single bill.
I have had seven operations for Crohns, a back surgery, and treatment for ongoing Leukaemia. I have lived in a half dozen different jurisdictions for health care and I’m only alive thanks to the excellence of the US medical system. Doesn’t make the financial side of it any less onerous, sadly.