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The Great Unwinding: The Failing Battle for Health and Healthcare in These All Too Disunited States
By Liz Theoharis, originally published by Tom Dispatch, March 11, 2024
"Such Medicaid cuts and hospital closures are but two manifestations of a far larger attack on American...healthcare in what’s fast being transformed into a death-dealing nation. They are but harbingers of an even larger “unwinding” of our health as a nation. Before the pandemic and the most recent cuts, 87 million Americans were already uninsured or underinsured. We’re talking about people sharing heart-attack medicine because they can’t afford their own prescriptions, burying their children for lack of healthcare, and relying on emergency rooms rather than preventative care, while going bankrupt in the process.
...In 2022, more than one of every four adults (28% of us) reported delaying or going without...simply because they lacked the ability to pay..."
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-11/the-great-unwinding-the-failing-battle-for-health-and-healthcare-in-these-all-too-disunited-states/
#Healthcare #Insurance #PublicHealth
By Liz Theoharis, originally published by Tom Dispatch, March 11, 2024
"Such Medicaid cuts and hospital closures are but two manifestations of a far larger attack on American...healthcare in what’s fast being transformed into a death-dealing nation. They are but harbingers of an even larger “unwinding” of our health as a nation. Before the pandemic and the most recent cuts, 87 million Americans were already uninsured or underinsured. We’re talking about people sharing heart-attack medicine because they can’t afford their own prescriptions, burying their children for lack of healthcare, and relying on emergency rooms rather than preventative care, while going bankrupt in the process.
...In 2022, more than one of every four adults (28% of us) reported delaying or going without...simply because they lacked the ability to pay..."
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-11/the-great-unwinding-the-failing-battle-for-health-and-healthcare-in-these-all-too-disunited-states/
#Healthcare #Insurance #PublicHealth