Healthcare costs are forcing American seniors to make impossible choices. Medicare doesn't cover everything, and many retirees live on fixed incomes from Social Security – often less than three thousand dollars a month.

When unexpected medical bills arrive, those costs can push seniors to the financial edge.

CGTN's Nitza Soledad Perez met a Jacksonville couple who thought they'd done everything right. They paid off their house. They saved where they could. Then they got sick.

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