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Medicine - In America today, the price of healthcare is quite expensive, and not all of the citizens can afford insurance to help cover their doctor and medicine costs.
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Essay 5B - Medicine In America today, the price of healthcare is quite expensive, and not all of the citizens can afford insurance to help cover their doctor and medicine costs. I recently went to the doctor's for a sinus infection and was charged a total of $95. I was only needed to pay my $15 co-pay since I am still covered by my father's insurance plan, but I wondered how in the world a person from a lower class without my benefits and who was living on a tight budget would have paid for this? Healthcare is definitely unequally distributed in society. If a family has the money and social ranking, then they are financially covered if a medical emergency happens to occur. On the other hand, if a family is financially unstable, then a medical emergency will more than likely cause them to drown in debt for years, or...
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