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How Financial Constraints Create Medical Prioritization

I buy my prescriptions one at a time based on which symptoms I can least afford to have that week.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The person has been forced to become their own triage system, making decisions no individual should have to make.

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Worth thinking about

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

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