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More than 42% of the 9.5 million people diagnosed with cancer from 2000 to 2012 drained their life's assets within two years, according to a study published last year in the American Journal of Medicine. via @annagorman KHN/@NPR n.pr/2XhuqAu
Randall Marley, a computer systems engineer, says he frequently comes home from work to find his wife not feeling well and frustrated about having spent a precious day of her recovery making phone calls to understand and dispute #medicalbills.
Cancer patients are 2.5 times more likely to file for bankruptcy than those without #cancer, and bankruptcy puts them at a higher risk for early death, according to research.
