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More than 45% of non-elderly adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) report financial hardship due to the associated medical bills, according to a Yale research team. Worse still, about one in five report being unable to pay those medical bills at all, said the researchers.
This study appears in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
According to the study, which was scaled up from the data sample provided by the 2013-2017 National Health Interview Survey, the non-elderly American adults with ASCVD experiencing medical bill-related financial hardship represents an estimated 3.9 million individuals.
"It is remarkably disheartening to see how many people suffer severe financial adverse effects of having atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease," said Harlan Krumholz, M.D., Yale cardiologist and director of the Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE). "We have much work to do to ensure that people are spared the financial toxicity of disease that is imposed by our current healthcare system."
Of the group who indicated financial hardship, more than one in three reported that they have also experienced significant financial distress, cut back on purchasing basic necessities like food, and/or skimped on taking essential but costly medications in response to the burden of their medical bills.
Materials provided by Yale University.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @06:56PM (3 children)
my colitis medicine monthly cost went from ~30 a month (15 years ago) to somewhere between $1000 to $2000 per month out of pocket with insurance via the same company I've worked for 21 years - I can't afford that so the disease will progress to the next steps
we need to get this under control
clearly this is a population reduction attempt, though I want to refuse to believe that leaders are that blind or the corrupt
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @07:14PM (1 child)
Disbelief about how shitty people can be is why we're here in the first place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @07:20PM
It really is just stupidity. People somehow believe that forcing people to pay scammers would make the scams stop instead of growing larger and more powerful. There is no excuse for this.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:08PM
Reduction? No.
Just a controlled refreshing of the suckers pool, that's what the H1B (and the wall) is all about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford