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When couples can't afford healthcare and have to choose whose needs come first

My partner and I are both uninsured and we've been putting off medical care for months — they need dental work, I haven't had a physical in three years — and we're starting to fight about whose health needs get priority when we finally scrape together some money.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people in love are forced to ration care for their own bodies like a scarcity economy.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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