{"id":6280,"date":"2025-07-26T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:17","slug":"opinion-america-s-medical-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/opinion-america-s-medical-minority\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: America\u2019s \u2018medical minority\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6280\" class=\"elementor elementor-6280\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1a145003 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1a145003\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ba4bb52 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ba4bb52\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In 1967, during an intense civil-rights movement, economist David Caplovitz published \u201cThe Poor Pay More.\u201d The book discussed racial and ethnic minorities and the various ways in which they actually pay more for commodities than do middle-income earners. For example, low-income parents buy cheap shoes for their children. However, because the shoes are made of inferior materials and exhibit less precise construction, the shoes don\u2019t last long and must be replaced far more frequently than quality shoes. Consequently, over time, poor people pay more for shoes than wealthier people. Caplovitz called this phenomenon the \u201cpoverty penalty.\u201d<\/p><h2>\u2018Medical minority\u2019<\/h2><p>People who have severe and chronic medical problems also pay more for almost everything that they need. For example, more than 37 million Americans suffer from diabetes. That\u2019s more than one of every 10 Americans. According to the Mayo Clinic Press, \u201cType 2 diabetes happens when the body cannot use insulin correctly and sugar builds up in the blood.\u201d This ten percent of our country\u2019s population is part of our \u201cmedical minority.\u201d<\/p><p>If their condition is untreated, the disorder eventually damages eyes, kidneys, nerves, and heart. The disease occurs when the pancreas fails to produce enough insulin to help sugar enter cells. There is no cure. But weight management, exercise, and medications can provide palliative care and prolong lives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1967, during an intense civil-rights movement, economist David Caplovitz published \u201cThe Poor Pay More.\u201d The book discussed racial and ethnic minorities and the various ways in which they actually pay more for commodities than do middle-income earners. For example, low-income parents buy cheap shoes for their children. However, because the shoes are made of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[37,40,46],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-finance","tag-health","tag-organizations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}