Half of the people in the US pay 1 thousand dollars annually to get medical treatment (deductibles)

Women With Breast Cancer Delay Care When Faced With High Deductibles NYT May 2018

• Study found that women with high deductibles “delayed beginning chemotherapy by an average of seven months”

• “About 11 percent of covered workers have a deductible of at least $3,000”

• Also” numerous studies show people are more likely to forgo preventive care when they have a high deductible — even if that care is free”

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• Some people delay getting treatment until the start of the next year so as to not have to pay deductibles in each year

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• If you cannot readily get medical treatment, consider Alternative Med such as vitamin D

• ICU cost reduced by at least 27,000 dollars if get high dose vitamin D in first week - April 2017

• Health Care Costs in US are increasing - infographics and Vitamin D - Dec 2016

• Heart Attack ICU costs reduced $37,000 by $20 of Vitamin D – Nov 2015

• Cost savings with Vitamin D chart shows the huge increase in deductibles

Reduce deductibles and co-pays for pregnancy and infant medical care

• Costs of Pregnancy much reduced by Vitamin D

  • $10 of Vitamin D might routinely save $1,000 in out-of-pocket costs over 3 years of pregnancy & early childhood

• Omega-3 supplementation during pregnancy reduce early preterm births (save 1500 USD per child) – Aug 2016

• Vitamin D once during pregnancy reduced infant health care costs (300 times ROI) – RCT Dec 2015

  Healthy pregnancies need lots of vitamin D has the following summary

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