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Why Poverty Makes Illness Feel Like Personal Failure

I feel guilty for being sick because I know my family cannot afford for me to be sick right now.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Economic vulnerability has transformed a biological reality into a moral failing.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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