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Healthcare gap is widening
Despite an explosion of new drugs and better ways to get treatment are reinventing how people consume health care, those Tennesseans who would most benefit from the latest technology simply can’t afford it. Across Tennessee and the country, the gap between the poor and the not so poor, has widened in recent years, according to a study by the Tennessee Justice Center. Income correlates to health care spending and is associated with longevity, according to studies that looked at long-term expenditures across income brackets and death records. The amount spent by people in the highest income brackets — people who are generally among the healthiest — increased from 2004 to 2012. But, spending in lower income brackets over the same period began to decrease — leading to a gap in money spent on health care, according to a study by the journal Health Affairs that looked at data from 1963 to 2012. Then the gap began to widen, signaling what the authors said was a "redistribution of care toward wealthier Americans." More and more insurance plans are shifting higher costs to patients through higher deductibles, but for people who haven’t seen real wage growth, higher bills are competing with food, fuel, utility and internet bills and rent.
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