11/05/2021
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Fully half of Americans now carry medical debt, up from 46% in 2020, according to new data from Debt.com, a consumer financial education company.
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More than half (57%) of Americans with medical debt owe at least $1,000, driven by hospitalizations, medications, insurance and emergency room visits.
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That's a 101% increase from the roughly $2,500 per person that Americans spent about 34 years ago in 1984, according to an analysis of the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditures Survey by data company Clever. To make accurate comparisons, Clever adjusted all dollar amounts for inflation.
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I recently cited a study from Tufts University in the medical journal PLOS Medicine that showed if mainstream doctors prescribed healthy foods like we do in functional medicine it could prevent or at least dramatically improve as many as 3.28 million medical conditions such as heart attacks, strokes, autoimmune conditions, diabetes and other chronic inflammatory health problems and save more than $100 billion in health-care costs.
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Sources : https://www.debt.com/research/medical-debt-survey/
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https://www.cms.gov/
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Cost-effectiveness of financial incentives for improving diet and health through Medicare and Medicaid: A microsimulation study, PLOS Medicine
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