Patients with limited income cannot always afford medication, for example.

Before she got temporary coverage, she relied on emergency rooms and could not afford medication.

Many people drop out of treatment because they struggle to afford health insurance or medication, or because they have mental health or substance abuse problems that make it difficult for them to take care of themselves, Mermin says.

The reasons for the diabetes discrepancy are probably the same as those for heart disease and cancer; low-income individuals cannot afford healthy food or medication, and tend to have more stress in their day-to-day lives.

As a result, ten thousand patients worldwide could no longer afford medication that slowed the spread of leukemia.

He cannot afford worming medication for his children, and so they grow anemic and do poorly in school - and cannot concentrate when Americans lecture them about their poor governance.

And, yes, thirty years ago part of my practice was serving poor neighborhoods, where folks couldn't afford a doctor, medication, or hospital.

Their father never married their mother, who had breast cancer and lived her final years in great pain because she could not afford medication, Ms. Williams said.

In 1960, Coe appeared as Stu Christian in One Foot in Hell with Alan Ladd and Don Murray, the story of a man whose wife dies because he could not afford medication that cost $1.87.

Despite the economic growth in recent years, too many people do not have health insurance, too many schools are overcrowded or poorly equipped and too many of the elderly and their families cannot afford medication or specialized care, Mrs. Clinton repeatedly says.