Medical money spent for your basic healthcare is expensive. The new medication will cost you $1000 full pay. The cardiac test will cost you $1000 for your portion of the $15,000 full price. Your portion of the physical therapy evaluation with a provider out of your insurance network will cost $500. In or out of your insurance network is expensive. If you lack health insurance, it is more expensive. How do you choose what medication, treatment, or procedure to get? Is treatment more important than prevention? If it was prevented treatment may be unnecessary.
Medical care today is expensive and complicated. More unhealthy chronic conditions make medical treatment complex and costly. Many average household budgets are barely able to get proper nutrition and housing. Health insurance is less affordable. This leads to less prevention care, lifestyle maintenance care, and more treatment care. The cost of prevention is most likely less that treatment for chronic disease. As health insurance costs rises, personal deductibles and co-pays increase. Being unable to pay for basic health insurance usually means less medical care including health maintenance!
Chronic disease will become more chronic and more expensive to treat! The rising cost of healthcare including health insurance leads to more money spent by the patient. Along with the overall economic inflation (especially food), certain expenses are liable to be dropped. Health insurance and medication are likely to be discontinued or decreased so one can afford housing, food, gas, clothes, and more basic needs.
