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Young widowed cancer doctor researches harm of medical debt

NPR recently profiled a young widow who was left with hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical debt after her husband died of cancer. The woman, Fumiko Chino, is now a radiation oncologist at Duke University, studying the effects of financial strain on cancer...

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Concierge healthcare services cater to wealthiest Americans

The very rich can afford the very best of everything—including now healthcare too. A recent New York Times article reported on the nascent trend of ultra-high-end concierge healthcare services that are catching on in wealthy areas in places such as New York, Seattle, Los...

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Expectant mothers are dying from lack of access to costly treatment

Motherhood is more deadly in the United States than in other advanced countries, according to a recent New York Times article. An American woman is about five times as likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth as a British woman, for example, the newspaper...

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If you’d like to be a part of the conversation and help us craft the conversation and manifest this movement, we’d welcome your sharing your own HealthClx story, or be featured on our blog, to help us raise awareness about the issues with bills, the obstacles with care, and also the challenges of living with the rainbow assortment of conditions facing the American people today.

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Dental patients wonder about X-ray frequency

Many patients worry about radiation exposure when they get X-rays taken at the dentist. After all, that heavy lead blanket isn’t draped on you for nothing. The cost of the procedure is another concern for the uninsured. The New York Times recently reported on...

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Predictive data pushes riskiest out of insurance pools.

The debate over Obamacare has had one positive effect that everyone can agree on: it’s educated Americans that insurance is about risk-pooling—according to a recent Bloomberg article—that is, both healthy and sick people need to participate if it’s going to be affordable for the...

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Healthcare uncertainty challenges young adults

Young adults—who lose coverage under their parents’ health insurance plans upon turning 26—are stuck in healthcare limbo along with the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as Obamacare. According to CNBC, advisors agree that young people should always have health insurance,...

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