MarketWatch June 17, 2021
Many middle-aged Americans are just an illness or accident away from economic ruin—I wasn’t prepared when my husband got sick in the prime of our working lives
In 2018, my 49-year-old husband, Mike, was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis: a degenerative, progressive and incurable disease. Over the course of three years, he had over 50 doctors’ appointments and two hospitalizations; he also had to leave his career of 30 years in the hospitality industry.
I’ve spent my career conducting research on issues impacting workers’ economic security, studying everything from discrimination to retirement inequities, and writing books on them.
But until my husband’s medical problems, I wasn’t prepared for the systemic dysfunctions and injustices of America’s health care system.
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