the financial toxicity of medical care in the US


a really poignant article/set of cartoons points to one of the many absurdities in our current health care system: see https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2019-08-09/financial-toxicitiy-cancer-care-graphic , written by a woman whose husband died from cancer, financially ruined by the costs of treatment, who then went to medical school and became an academic oncologist researching the way medical costs affect people

this was sent to me by an old friend living in LA, who made the comment:
"Living in a visual age, it really captures the poignancy and horror of the US health system  in a way that it might take a writer many pages to convey, and still not as powerfully.
Most importantly, people will read those cartoons. They probably would never read a couple pages of prose  anymore."

geoff

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