Americans can no longer afford to get sick and there’s a reason why. That’s because a growing number of Americans are struggling to stretch their dollars far enough to pay their bills, get out of debt and ensure that if and when an illness arises, it doesn’t bankrupt them. This is a reality that no amount of partisan political bickering can deny. Many Americans can no longer afford health insurance, drug costs or hospital bills. They can’t afford to pay rising healthcare premiums, out-of-pocket deductibles and prescription drug bills. They can’t afford to live, and now they can’t afford to get sick or die, either.
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Show Notes
Helaine Olen, “Even the Insured Often Can’t Afford Their Medical Bills,” The Atlantic
Mark Betancourt, “The Devastating Process of Dying in America Without Insurance,” The Nation
Robert Pear, “Why Do Health Costs Keep Rising? These People Know,” The New York Times
Ester Bloom, “Here’s how much the average American spends on health care,” CNBC
Dan Mangan, “Most popular Obamacare plans cost average of 34 percent more for 2018,” CNBC
Zachary Tracer, “Rising Health-Insurance Costs Are Eating Into Employees’ Paycheck Gains,” Bloomberg
Dan Mangan, “We spend more than any developed country on healthcare and have less to show for it,” CNBC
Laurie Meisler, “Americans Die Younger Despite Spending the Most on Health Care,” Bloomberg
Lauren Gelman, “10 Wildly Overinflated Hospital Costs,” Reader’s Digest
“10 Ridiculously Overpriced Hospital Costs,” MBA Medical
Jayne O’Donnell, “Feds’ Obamacare site does biggest business yet, while about half of people can pay $0,” USA Today
Robert Pear, “Health Law Tax Penalty? I’ll Take It, Millions Say,” The New York Times
Kathryn Vasel, “6 in 10 Americans don’t have $500 in savings,” CNN
Ester Bloom, “Here’s how many Americans have nothing at all saved for retirement,” CNBC
Jim Powell, “John Locke: Natural Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property,” FEE
Dennis Hevesi, “Irwin Schiff, Fervent Opponent of Federal Income Taxes, Dies at 87,” The New York Times
Melissa Block, “A History Of The Income Tax,” NPR
Linda Greenhouse, “Supreme Court Ruling Supports Tax Protester,” The New York Times
U.S. Debt Clock
Drew Desilver, “5 facts about the national debt,” Pew Research
Uri Friedman, “Fighting Terrorism With a Credit Card,” The Atlantic
Jack Moore, “The Cost of War for the U.S. Taxpayer Since 9/11 Is Actually Three Times the Pentagon’s Estimate,” Newsweek
Gillian Kiley-Brown, “Post-9/11 U.S. war costs will soon top $5.6 trillion,” Futurity
Jeanne Sahadi, “The financial cost of 16 years in Afghanistan,” CNN
Linda J. Bilmes, “Iraq and Afghanistan: The US$6 trillion bill for America’s longest war is unpaid,” The Conversation
Alex Ward, “Trump is sending more than 3,000 troops to Afghanistan,” Vox
Dwight D. Eisenhower, “The Chance for Peace” (Apr. 16, 1953)
Financial Tyranny: ‘We the People’ Are the New Permanent Underclass in America
Battlefield America: The War on the American People
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