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When couples struggle to afford necessary medication on two incomes

My partner and I both work but we still can't afford my medication and we keep having the same fight about whether I should skip doses to stretch it longer or if we should ask her parents for money again and neither option feels sustainable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Financial stress is creating impossible choices between health and dignity, with each partner carrying different guilt about the situation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Money and physical health — poverty as health condition?”

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