{"id":5507,"date":"2022-09-28T07:50:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allocare.caredx.com\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2022-09-28T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:50:19","slug":"medical-debt-makes-the-sick-sicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app-allocare-wordpress-linux-prod.azurewebsites.net\/indexphp\/post\/2022\/09\/28\/medical-debt-makes-the-sick-sicker\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Debt Makes the Sick Sicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5507\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>\u2014 Better and broader insurance coverage is essential<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Most physicians have sworn an oath to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.health.harvard.edu\/blog\/first-do-no-harm-201510138421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">abstain from whatever is deleterious<\/a>&#8221; to our patients. Yet our medical institutions harm patients daily. They dun them for medical bills they can&#8217;t afford, often leaving them unable to pay their rent or mortgage, or buy enough to eat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That accusation isn&#8217;t hyperbole, it&#8217;s a finding from our analysis &#8212; published this month in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2796358\" target=\"_blank\"><em>JAMA Network Open<\/em><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; of Census Bureau surveys on medical indebtedness.\u00a0 <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/opinion\/second-opinions\/100933?xid=nl_secondopinion_2022-09-27&amp;eun=g2017571d0r\">Read more<\/a> in MedPage Today.<\/p>\n<span class=\"simplefavorite-button has-count loading\" data-postid=\"5507\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Loading<span class=\"sf-icon-spinner-wrapper\"><i class=\"sf-icon-spinner\"><\/i><\/span><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading \u2014 Better and broader insurance coverage is essential Most physicians have sworn an oath to &#8220;abstain from whatever is deleterious&#8221; to our patients. 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