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Quotes about Medical Debt from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
"This woman lived with unrelenting levels of stress—a high powered job, a chronically ill child, financial difficulties from too much medical debt?but she arrested and reversed her arthritis through hypnosis, regular meditation, and "broom therapy."
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A couple of years ago a middle-aged attorney came to me for help with depression, chronic fatigue, and frequent headaches." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)
| "Doty, a senior analyst at The Commonwealth Fund and author of a study examining insurance trends, and her colleagues report that almost two out of five adults in the US—an estimated 77 million people—have difficulty paying medical bills or are struggling with medical debt. Surprisingly, 70% of the people who are overwhelmed by medical debt and 57% of those who have current bill-paying problems said they were insured at the time their difficulties began, the study found." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)
| "Finally, we looked at some of the proposals for transitioning our nation from one of medical debt and chronic disease to a nation of outstanding health and wealth. We can do that by making changes at the federal level that outlaw junk foods, that educate the public, that put honest labels on foods and that don't make junk foods and disease promoting foods available at public schools or hospitals.
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So those are the Seven Laws of Nutrition." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)
| "Rising Health Costs, medical debt and Chronic Conditions." Center for Studying Health System Change.
Health Affairs.
Millions of American families are struggling to pay their medical bills, while others are drowning in the debt accrued by doctor and hospital visits, according to recent studies. What's troubling is that a significant percentage of these people have health insurance.
As the cost of medical care continues to rise, consumers are bearing a greater share of their medical expenses." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)
"Surprisingly, 70% of the people who are overwhelmed by medical debt and 57% of those who have current bill-paying problems said they were insured at the time their difficulties began, the study found.
"We're looking at the tip of what's happened with the erosion of benefits, as employers and plans start to share the costs with employees. We're going to see more of this," Doty predicts.
RECENT STATISTICS
In 2003, one in five working-age Americans who had chronic health problems—approximately 12."
- Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)
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