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END MEDICAL DEBT IBD

CRAIG ANTICO / JERRY ASHTON / ROBERT EGOFF
HOKU HOUSE
10 / 2021
9781737398509
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¡END MEDICAL DEBTCuring AmericaâÇÖs Healthcare CrisisUpdated and Expanded Covid Recovery EditionJerry Ashton âÇó Robert E. Goff âÇó Craig AnticoáâÇó Founders of the charity, RIPâÇêMedical Debt Introduction by Allison Sesso Edited by Judah FreedPrior Edition: #1 Bestseller in Health Policy - Top 100 in Personal FinanceáThree healthcare management and debt collections insiders expose the hardships of personal and family medical debt in America. They explore our optionsáfor fixing the broken healthcare system producing $140 billion in unpayable medical bills.Book FeaturesPaints the Big Picture for the causes and consequencesáof the current $140 billion in U.S. medical debt.Offers practical tools and insights for individuals andáfamilies facing the pain of unpayable medical bills.Explains the structure and financing of medical care.áLays bare how it works, and why it works that way.Exposes medical costs and debt inequities for the poor,áfor veterans and for the underinsured middle class.Shows how early hospitals and insurance evolved toábecame trapped into putting profits before health.Weighs proposed national solutions from the authorsâÇÖáprogressive, moderate and conservative viewpoints.Explores the balance between personal responsibilityáand social responsibility in generating good health.áTells the origin story of RIP Medical Debt. Gives anáinside look at buying and abolishing hardship debt.The authors and publisher donate 85 percent of all revenues to RIP Medical Debt, a charity using donations to buy old medical debt for pennies on the dollar and then forgive it. Each book sold abolishes about $500 in hardship healthcare debt.Reviews'End Medical Debt is one of the best books IâÇÖve read that explains how our healthcare system became a vorac¡ious monster, and the steps we can take, individually and collectively, to keep it from devouring us.'áWendell Potter, Center for Health and Democracy'The Covid recovery edition of End Medical Debt breaks down critical issues in a way thatâÇÖs easy to understand. 'áMarlene Wust-Smith MD, Physician Outlook Magazineá'End Medical Debt is special because it advocates for systemic change while providing tactical solutions for Americans now facing the devastating burden of medical debt.áRohan Pavluri, Upsolve'End Medical Debt does more than describe the unsustainable structure of our current healthcare system. The book demonstrates what was always the solution: People helping people, voluntarily and without coercion.'Ernest Hancock, FreedomsPhoenix'End MedicalâÇêDebt is exactly whatâÇÖs needed to jumpstart the national discussion about our dysfunctional healthcare system, and what to do about it.'Joel R. Segal, Former senior assistant, U.S. Congress. Co-author of the 'Medicare For All' bill.

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