Programs that offer financial assistance and transportation as well as grants that help cover expenses are among the key strategies that can help reduce the financial stress of breast cancer care.
In Indiana, the cost of untreated mental illness, including direct healthcare, non-healthcare, and indirect costs, totaled more than $4 billion in 2019, which represents 1.2% of the state’s GDP that year.
Data suggest that healthcare costs triple for survivors of police shootings in Canada, compared with costs before the shooting and with costs for nonfirearm injuries.
If implemented as proposed by three preeminent scientists, the ambitious program would save many thousands of lives, and nearly $60 billion in future healthcare costs.