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When medication costs become life-or-death calculations

I haven't been able to afford my blood pressure medication for two months and I check my pulse constantly and wonder if I'm slowly killing myself through poverty.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic barriers to essential medications create existential anxiety about survival that compounds health risks.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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