L.B. LOVELACE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Otis R. BOWEN, M.D., Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee

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• holding that if the claimant cannot afford or obtain prescribed treatment or medication, the condition may still be disabling
• finding a condition to be disabling when a Plaintiff can find no way to obtain it and provides proof that no facilities are available to the indigent
• “To a poor person, a medicine that he cannot afford to buy does not exist”
• Dr. Bousader- Armstrong’s finding chronic back pain, bilateral leg numbness, and pain in feet that was worse with walking
• “To a poor person, a medicine that he cannot afford to buy does not exist”
• “To a poor person, a medicine that he cannot afford to buy does not exist.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).