"No one should have to be fighting cancer and insurance at the same time. It's such a cruel system. We live in a country where people are truly kicked down when they are at their weakest and most vulnerable, both physically and emotionally."
The experience of being sick and not being able to afford care in the US can be truly harrowing. Americans have long struggled to get the care they need to survive.
More than 200 readers wrote to CNN since Thompson's killing eight days ago, recounting horror stories, showing that Americans have been suffering and dying at the hands of an unjust and greedy insurance system.
According to a June 2023 survey by nonprofit health policy group KFF, the majority of insured adults have at least one health insurance problem.
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