My partner and I are self-employed and we've been going without health insurance for six months because we can't afford the premiums, but we also can't afford not to have it. Every month we say we'll figure it out next month and we're both getting more anxious and resentful.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are trapped between financial impossibility and existential risk, using avoidance to cope with a problem that requires immediate attention they can't afford.
“Where Are You with Insurance — theory and practice?”
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