Credit Score = Live/Die = Muricuh

Drop two credit tiers in a year? Your death risk jumps 30%.

Drop two tiers in six months? 63% higher chance of dying.

That’s not correlation. That’s murder by spreadsheet.

New JAMA study (LINK IN COMMENTS ⬇️ tracked what happens when cancer crashes your finances. Your credit tanks because you chose chemo over Chase Bank. Collections calls replace care coordination. Your score drops. Your access shrinks. Your survival odds plummet.

Then some administrator shrugs and calls it “financial toxicity.”

Like it’s a rash, not a death sentence.

This study came from Massachusetts. The state where everyone supposedly has coverage. Where healthcare reform “worked.” If credit scores kill people there, imagine Alabama. Arkansas. Anywhere politicians pretend medical debt doesn’t exist.

The system knows exactly what it’s doing. Equifax decides you’re not worth saving anymore. Every provider knows it. Every administrator profits from it. Every legislator could fix it tomorrow.

They won’t.

I survived brain cancer at 21. The bills almost killed my family after the tumor couldn’t. That was 1996. We’re still having the same conversation in 2024 because the cruelty is the point.

A credit score measures whether you pay bills. It should never measure whether you survive cancer.

Your vote matters. Your story matters more.

Drop it below. Name the hospital. Name the debt. Name the collector who called during chemo. Make them see the bodies behind their data points.

If this hits home, tell me where you have seen it happen. Add a comment or a rage restack and drop your story in the thread. One reply pushes this in front of more people who deal with the same mess.

Are you new here? My condolences and my thanks. Follow along and stay loud with the rest of us. More voices means more pressure on a system that counts on silence.

#WeThePatients #FinancialToxicity #CancerDebt

SOURCE ➡️ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2838067