Memoir of Real-Life Barriers to Public Health [Barriers: Cost of Care]

This NPR article from April 10, 2023 entitled A daughter confronts the failures of our health care system in ‘A Living Remedy’ discusses the memoir of a woman who experiences challenges due to the barrier to public health of Cost of Care, among others. The challenges her family faces are many. The article states “Yet, during the time her 60-something-year old father was dying — of diabetes, renal failure and, most certainly, from decades of postponing costly medical check-ups — Chung and her family couldn’t afford to fly more than once a year, maybe, to visit her parents. ”