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Paperback. Condition: Fair. In our fervent public debates about the broken U.S. healthcare system, we have overlooked the devastating impacts of America's urgent medical debt crisis. Everybody knows somebody or themselves who struggles with medical bills. The time has come to bring medical debt into the center of our national conversation about healthcare.End Medical Debt, written by three industry insiders, is the first book to bypass political posturing to look clearly and realistically at the actual causes and possible cures for more than $1 trillion in unpayable medical debt in America. Medical debt causes hardships for individuals, families, communities, and the nation as a whole.Voicing decades of experience in debt collections, debt buying and healthcare management, the authors of End Medical Debt bring deep expertise to the problem of medical debt. Jerry Ashton has more than 40 years of experience in the credit and collections industry. Robert Goff recently retired from 40 years in healthcare administration management. Craig Antico has 30 years in collections, debt buying, outsourcing, and consulting.Drawing on their industry knowledge, the authors lay bare the inner workings of our healthcare system. They show how it produces medical bills that people cannot ever pay, including insured middle-class people who think they are covered. They tell how the early hospitals that focused on patient health evolved into today's healthcare conglomerates focused on patient revenues. They dissect the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to show where theory and reality do not match. They expose how our veterans get laden with medical debt that effectively tells them, No thank you for your service.The authors together began RIP Medical Debt, the charity made famous by John Oliver on HBO for abolishing $15 million in medical debt. Since 2014, RIP has purchased and forgiven $500 million medical debt. RIP is on track to abolish $1 billion in medical debt by 2020.Expressing the authors divergent progressive, moderate and conservative viewpoints, End Medical Debt offers pragmatic insights on such diverse solutions as promoting healthier behaviors to reduce costs and debt, imposing price controls on drugs and care services, reforming health insurance, making Medicaid an opt-out program for all who qualify, fixing the ACA, adding a Medicare Option to the ACA for people over age 50, or enacting Medicare for All single-payer universal healthcare.The authors disagree on the solutions, but they all agree on their one simple act of charity -- buying and forgiving medical debt. Debt forgiveness is necessary but not sufficient, at best it's an interim solution for medical debt until we can agree on a better financial structure for the broken U.S. healthcare system. End Medical Debt is a major step in that direction.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. In our fervent public debates about the broken U.S. healthcare system, we have overlooked the devastating impacts of America's urgent medical debt crisis. Everybody knows somebody or themselves who struggles with medical bills. The time has come to bring medical debt into the center of our national conversation about healthcare.End Medical Debt, written by three industry insiders, is the first book to bypass political posturing to look clearly and realistically at the actual causes and possible cures for more than $1 trillion in unpayable medical debt in America. Medical debt causes hardships for individuals, families, communities, and the nation as a whole.Voicing decades of experience in debt collections, debt buying and healthcare management, the authors of End Medical Debt bring deep expertise to the problem of medical debt. Jerry Ashton has more than 40 years of experience in the credit and collections industry. Robert Goff recently retired from 40 years in healthcare administration management. Craig Antico has 30 years in collections, debt buying, outsourcing, and consulting.Drawing on their industry knowledge, the authors lay bare the inner workings of our healthcare system. They show how it produces medical bills that people cannot ever pay, including insured middle-class people who think they are covered. They tell how the early hospitals that focused on patient health evolved into today's healthcare conglomerates focused on patient revenues. They dissect the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to show where theory and reality do not match. They expose how our veterans get laden with medical debt that effectively tells them, No thank you for your service.The authors together began RIP Medical Debt, the charity made famous by John Oliver on HBO for abolishing $15 million in medical debt. Since 2014, RIP has purchased and forgiven $500 million medical debt. RIP is on track to abolish $1 billion in medical debt by 2020.Expressing the authors divergent progressive, moderate and conservative viewpoints, End Medical Debt offers pragmatic insights on such diverse solutions as promoting healthier behaviors to reduce costs and debt, imposing price controls on drugs and care services, reforming health insurance, making Medicaid an opt-out program for all who qualify, fixing the ACA, adding a Medicare Option to the ACA for people over age 50, or enacting Medicare for All single-payer universal healthcare.The authors disagree on the solutions, but they all agree on their one simple act of charity -- buying and forgiving medical debt. Debt forgiveness is necessary but not sufficient, at best it's an interim solution for medical debt until we can agree on a better financial structure for the broken U.S. healthcare system. End Medical Debt is a major step in that direction.…

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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - END MEDICAL DEBTCuring America's Healthcare CrisisUpdated and Expanded Covid Recovery EditionJerry Ashton ¿ Robert E. Goff ¿ Craig Antico ¿ Founders of the charity, RIP¿Medical Debt Introduction by Allison Sesso Edited by Judah FreedPrior Edition: #1 Bestseller in Health Policy - Top 100 in Personal Finance Three healthcare management and debt collections insiders expose the hardships of personal and family medical debt in America. They explore our options for fixing the broken healthcare system producing $140 billion in unpayable medical bills.Book FeaturesPaints the Big Picture for the causes and consequences of the current $140 billion in U.S. medical debt.Offers practical tools and insights for individuals and families facing the pain of unpayable medical bills.Explains the structure and financing of medical care. Lays bare how it works, and why it works that way.Exposes medical costs and debt inequities for the poor, for veterans and for the underinsured middle class.Shows how early hospitals and insurance evolved to became trapped into putting profits before health.Weighs proposed national solutions from the authors' progressive, moderate and conservative viewpoints.Explores the balance between personal responsibility and social responsibility in generating good health. Tells the origin story of RIP Medical Debt. Gives an inside 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 I've read that explains how our healthcare system became a voracious monster, and the steps we can take, individually and collectively, to keep it from devouring us.' Wendell Potter, Center for Health and Democracy'The Covid recovery edition of End Medical Debt breaks down critical issues in a way that's easy to understand. ' Marlene Wust-Smith MD, Physician Outlook Magazine '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. Rohan 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 Medical¿Debt is exactly what's 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.…