Tay Zonday: Can’t Pay, Poverty + Interest

Posted by admin on Thursday, July 26, 2018

Tay Zonday Money Quote saying when people are unable to afford preventative health care, complications and disease follow to cost even more. Tay Zonday said:
 

 

“Being poor now just leads to being more poor later. Can’t pay to clean your teeth? Next year, pay for a root canal. Can’t pay for a new mattress? Next year, pay for back surgery. Can’t pay to get that lump checked out? Next year, pay for stage 3 cancer. Poverty charges interest” — Tay Zonday

 

 

In this quote, internet celebrity Tay Zonday is highlighting how poverty can become a self-perpetuating cycle due to the “interest” it accrues over time in the form of greater health burdens and costs.

The deeper meaning is that inability to afford basic preventative care when young and healthy often leads to much higher medical bills later on to treat advanced, more serious conditions that could have potentially been avoided.

Zonday’s point is that poverty is expensive, as the lack of means to pay for small things up front can transform into needing to pay for major interventions down the road due to deteriorating health. T

he quote underscores how financial hardship has ripple effects that make it increasingly difficult to escape over the long run without intervention to break this cycle of accumulating health “debt” tied to lack of access and resources.

Being poor now just leads to being more poor later. Can't pay to clean your teeth? Next year, pay for a root canal. Can't pay for a new mattress? Next year, pay for back surgery. Can't pay to get that lump checked out? Next year, pay for stage 3 cancer. Poverty charges interest.

— Tay Zonday (@TayZonday) July 19, 2018