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Out-Of-Pocket Spending

PROLOGUE

Out-Of-Pocket Health Spending And The Poor

No one disputes that it’s better to be healthy and well-off than to be poor and sick. (Trade-offs between health and wealth are another matter.) Even worse than being independently poor and sick is to be poor because of being sick or hurt, but that is a risk that much of the world’s population faces because they lack any form of insurance and either pay for health care out of pocket or do without it. In the worst of cases, people spend their way into poverty and still do not recover their health, which means that they can’t work and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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