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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 Sunday February 17 2019, @08:44AM (4 children)
Oversight is the voters' responsibility. You, like so many of the others, simply engage in blame passing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @09:23AM (1 child)
I vote responsibly: never for a republicrat. Anyone running for either of those parties has sold out, even Ron Paul. Unlike you, I don't expect it makes much difference though.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @03:18AM
I don't expect it makes much difference though.
Nope, it doesn't, until the other 95% stop reelecting republican/democrats. Still, it's nobody's fault but the voters, that 95% that plays along to get along. Look nowhere else. The government is a mere reflection of the voters' apathy (and antipathy) and corruption.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Sunday February 17 2019, @03:17PM (1 child)
This might shock you, but bureaucrats actively resist oversight from voters. They use two main tactics: obfuscation and exhaustion.
Obfuscation means scores of pages of legalese and jargon that is never defined. It means ambiguous phrasing they interpret to their profit.
Exhaustion means hiding the most important bits in the most purposely tedious sections that it would take superhuman endurance to get through. It means scheduling key hearings at 10pm Christmas Eve, or changing the location at the last minute so the public shows up to the wrong place. It means keeping documents at a location that is three hour's drive away from the city, in an office that's only open 30 minutes a day, and accessible only if in possession of paperwork you have to fill out that day at another office that's three hours' drive in the other direction.
And all this is visited upon voters who are working three jobs to pay the taxes to fund the salaries of said bureaucrats.
So let's not glibly lay everything at the feet of voters who are "not performing oversight." The only oversight bureaucrats understand and respond to is a punch to the face and a boot up the ass. Anything shy of that, any pretense to following their rules, is a complete waste of time.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @03:04AM
All they have to do is vote out the incumbents. And if the voters can't fix it, then who the hell can? What kind of miracle are all of you expecting? In a monarchy the king is responsible. In a democracy or republic only the people can be held responsible. If you don't demand better, how the hell do you expect to get it? I think you people are all crazy. You're doing everything you possibly can to evade responsibility for the choices you make. It's much easier to just say there is no free will. Then we can move on