Money and Chronic Illness

Nisha Kumar Kulkarni
6 min readNov 2, 2020

Chronic illness seriously complicates the role money plays in our lives.

Photo by Raychan on Unsplash

In my July post, “Reimagine Work,” I wrote the following:

“A 2019 study noted that approximately 530,000 bankruptcies are filed annually in the U.S. because of “debt accrued due to a medical illness.” That is almost 4% of the U.S. chronic illness population.”

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Nisha Kumar Kulkarni

freelance writer & editor | writing coach | chronic illness advocate