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When medical improvement threatens financial survival

I need a surgery that costs thirty thousand dollars or I will lose my vision but if I get it I will lose my disability benefits that pay for my rent and food.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Disability benefit systems create perverse incentives that punish medical improvement with economic destabilization.

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