50% of all cancer patients spend their savings of a lifetime in just two years. To such conclusion the American researchers.
Half of American patients affected with malignant tumors, wasting the savings of a lifetime in less than two years. The study authors found that the cost of cancer treatment in the United States, on average, is $92 000 per year that must be spend just to stay alive. Often we are talking about people who have health insurance. Costs are particularly high for the most vulnerable categories of the population, including the elderly, and faced with a serious complications. Naturally, the maximum costs are borne by patients who do not have insurance. These are the conclusions made on the basis of the analysis of the cost of treatment 9.5 million patients between 1998 and 2014.
Experts believe that this trend will only worsen as an increasing number of Americans prefer to buy insurance, short-acting, which does not cover the cost of treatment of cancer. In addition, cheaper insurance plans do not provide for expenditures in support of people who have entered into a period of remission. Tumors remain the main killers of the population in the United States after heart disease. Every year more than 1.6 million Americans face cancer, 87% of the patients older than 50 years. Annually, over 600 thousand Americans die from cancer.
The cost of treating this illness is also dazzling. American hospitals spend $87.8 billion a year. The loss of the American economy from the early mortality rates of cancer approaching $130 billion, the study showed, a significant part of the cost of cancer treatment borne by patients. Partially compensate for the cost of private insurance companies. The American government supported the funding of the two public insurance schemes that pay for treatment of citizens with low income and pensioners. (READ MORE)