According to Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Dr. Susan Sabatino -- based on a study -- there are an estimated 660,000 uninsured cancer survivors in the US.Because of the lack of medical insurance, or financial ability, two-thirds of uninsured cancer survivors younger than 65 delay seeking medical attention or skip buying needed prescriptions. The reason the study focused on people younger than 65 is because they do not qualify for Medicare health coverage.
Sabatino and her team share that they found almost 43 percent of cancer survivors with no health coverage said they had failed to get necessary prescription medicines due to cost concerns. In what can seem a normal life, your whole world collapses when you get a diagnose of cancer -- I cannot fathom the additional inner terror that someone diagnosed with cancer must face if they do not have health insurance or realize they cannot financially afford treatment or long-term aftercare.
