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Of the 9.5 million cancer diagnoses studied between 2000–2012, researchers discovered that 42.4 percent of patients (median age 68.6±9.4 years) spent all of the
by apo 8y ago
Of the 9.5 million cancer diagnoses studied between 2000–2012, researchers discovered that 42.4 percent of patients (median age 68.6±9.4 years) spent all of their money, averaging $92,098. This follows disturbing news from earlier this year that 40 percent of Americans can't afford to pay $400 in case of an emergency. The math is not adding up.
No, the math doesn't make sense. Either the author of the linked article misinterpreted the journal article, or the authors of the journal article didn't reports their numbers correctly.
The only other conclusion might be that cancer strikes the "wealthy" (those with 100K in savings) more than the poor.
- labster 8y agoThe poor just die from cancer. The lower classes "borrow" money from friends and family, because cancer makes a better charity case than "my alternator broke". The middle class, and lower upper class has savings and home equity, and spends all of that to fight cancer. The upper class can spend whatever it takes. Though now that I think about it, maybe the alternator fix is the more effective altruism, because it's something that can keep someone from falling a rung on the economic ladder, and being unable to afford health care. There's never enough, is there.