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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 16 2019, @11:46PM (2 children)
No, GP is telling you that they are not doing anythign productive, hence they are not gettign paid, so you have to give them free advanced healthcare.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @05:50AM (1 child)
Doing nothing productive nets huge amounts of money. Just look at how profitable it was for the bankers to crash the economy.
The people actually producing our wealth get paid peanuts at best.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @07:43AM
Yep, the government and fed gave them like $20 trillion in loans from that. We should raise taxes on the rich so the government has even more money to give away in corporate welfare.