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posted by janrinok on Saturday February 16 2019, @04:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the sickening dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:58PM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Saturday February 16 2019, @10:58PM (#802227) Journal

    You mean Romneycare, since this individual mandate horseshit was his idea.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:41PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:41PM (#802246)

    Obama didn't have to leave everything up to Congress. He could have proposed a bill, he could have vetoed this bullshit, he could have pressured them. Nope. He took the credit for "Obamacare", and whenever anything negative is said, it's "oh you mean Romneycare". Bullshit.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Sunday February 17 2019, @12:12AM (1 child)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Sunday February 17 2019, @12:12AM (#802258) Journal

      They can both rot in Hell, happy now? I'm not a fan of Obama personally, though I realize he was the lesser of two evils. He was right of Reagan and had an appalling civil rights record given his use of drones to kill a US citizen abroad.

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      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:28AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @02:28AM (#802312)

        Oooh, and killing a US citizen terrorist is soooooo much worse than blowing up entire extended families at a wedding in Whateveristan or Blahrabia.
        If they're not US citizens, they're just sand niggers, not real people. /sarcasm. Racist.