‘Don’t get sick. It’s too expensive’: medical debt is putting more Americans in financial crisis

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‘Don’t get sick. It’s too expensive’: medical debt is putting more Americans in financial crisis
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At times I wonder if medically assisted suicides are frowned upon due to not being able to further drain the money out of patients and their extended credit lines.

They're also frowned upon because it's pretty cruel to tell someone "well, you could just die" because they can't afford medical treatments or a place to live.

How is that any different than it is now? You can choose to die with dignity, or, in the current system, drain your funds, your families funds, put everyone in debt, THEN die.

Nobody needs to tell us that. We already know.

I'd rather rhave the option than not even ha e autonomy over my own life.

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