THANKS to soaring global healthcare costs, being down with an illness today is not only uncomfortable, it is expensive. And if you are poor, poverty itself is a triple liability.
It’s not just a matter of being unable to afford potentially life-saving procedures. The inability to pay for any healthcare at all – because you have food, shelter and your children’s education to worry about – can force you to sit on minor irritations until it becomes a serious medical condition.
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