Call: Send Us Your Health Care Horror Stories
Jacobin is launching a column that showcases how health care in the United States affects the lives of ordinary Americans. We are asking for personal essays on your experience with health care — whether as a patient, a loved one, a doctor, or a nurse.
A quarter of Americans are delaying seeking medical help because of costs.
The United States’ health care system is broken:
137 million Americans are in medical debt — one-third of all GoFundMe pages are to raise money for medical costs.
A quarter of Americans are delaying seeking medical help because of costs.
Black patients are less likely to get the medical care they need than white patients.
Doctors have double the suicide rate of the general population.
Jacobin is launching a column that showcases how health care in the United States affects the lives of ordinary Americans.
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