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 slap on Sunday February 17 2019, @04:09AM (1 child)
"People eat like crap and the FDA lets it happen."
So, you want the FDA to put armed guards outside of fast food restaurants to keep people from eating crappy food? "Drop that Big Mac or I'll be forced to shoot!".
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday February 19 2019, @07:07AM
The official recommendations could be better. Should ketchup be a vegetable when considering a healthy meal?
Nothing wrong with the government giving advice if its good advice. The problem is when the lobbyists push for bad advice.