• Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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    5 hours ago

    This and similar claims are repeated quite often. But it seems a bit misleading:
    Restricting people’s urgent medical care for months on end does end in early death, or severe health consequences.

    How severe this issue is, I don’t know. But this is a point I’ve heard quite frequently now.

    When this inefficient system doesn’t literally kill Americans, it can still kill them financially. “Almost a third of all working adults in the United States are carrying some kind of medical debt.