Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine
Autor Luke Messacen Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 noi 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197676639
ISBN-10: 0197676634
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 237 x 164 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197676634
Pagini: 200
Dimensiuni: 237 x 164 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.49 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Recenzii
The German word for debt is the same word for guilt. But you don't have to be German to be a guilty debtor in the United States, where the sin of being ill and poor is discharged by indentured labor and the harassment of the debt collector. Luke Messac takes us on a tour of the underbelly of America's hospitals and their horrific debt practices. If there's one country where you don't want to be both poor and ill, it's the United States.
A crystal-clear critique of the travesty of profit-driven US medicine by a historian drawing on archives, oral history, public records, and his own ethnographic experience as a doctor delivering emergency care medicine for a typically predatory 'non-profit hospital' that bankrupts its poorest, most vulnerable patients. All medical students should read this book to prevent themselves from inadvertently becoming cogs in a monstrous wheel that indebts their lowest income patients.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impetus for transforming the American health care system is more urgent than ever. Doctor and historian Luke Messac shows how the system has been warped by growing financialization and profiteering, with disastrous consequences for the millions of people struggling with medical debt. Both infuriating and illuminating, he paints a portrait too compelling to ignore.
Your Money or Your Life offers a rare, deeply powerful, and impressively original look at the roots of medical greed and how and why health care debt is driving down the health of our nation. This book is a passionate and inspiring expression of the importance of empowering community leaders and their residents to advocate for affordable, accessible, and equitable health care before it's too late. It provides the roadmap, now it's up to all of us to heed the charge.
Usually, doctors keep themselves aloof from their patients' financial troubles, but not Luke Messac. Your Money or Your Life shows how medical debt and the fear of debt decimate family finances and prevent sick people from seeking needed care. Dr. Messac, a historian and emergency physician, is one of our most important critics of the US health system. His voice is engaging and compassionate, and we must listen.
In Your Money or Your Life, Luke Messac weaves together the compelling, and true, story of how medical debt collection became so aggressive and its real-world impact. Taking readers on a remarkable - and eminently readable - journey through the history and practice of medical debt collection...this great book demonstrates how these events are not aberrations or one-off errors in judgment, but baked into the design of American health care and the institutions that profit from the sidelines. Dr. Messac's book proves that it will take more than occasional finger wagging or modest reforms around the edges to ensure that patients and doctors are no longer debtors and creditors. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, should read Your Money or Your Life.
In Your Money or Your Life, Dr. Messac provides a piercing and must-read investigation into how medical debt came to be such a powerful and grim force in American medicine. To create change for the millions of American families beset by the financial toxicity of our health care system, we must learn from this difficult history.
Messac (Harvard Medical School) makes it clear that the root causes of these issues are health-care system flaws more than immoral or callous insurance companies, hospital CEOs, lawyers, or collection agencies. This great, quick read demonstrates why chastising and removing bad actors will never be a substitute for systemic health financing reform.
A crystal-clear critique of the travesty of profit-driven US medicine by a historian drawing on archives, oral history, public records, and his own ethnographic experience as a doctor delivering emergency care medicine for a typically predatory 'non-profit hospital' that bankrupts its poorest, most vulnerable patients. All medical students should read this book to prevent themselves from inadvertently becoming cogs in a monstrous wheel that indebts their lowest income patients.
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impetus for transforming the American health care system is more urgent than ever. Doctor and historian Luke Messac shows how the system has been warped by growing financialization and profiteering, with disastrous consequences for the millions of people struggling with medical debt. Both infuriating and illuminating, he paints a portrait too compelling to ignore.
Your Money or Your Life offers a rare, deeply powerful, and impressively original look at the roots of medical greed and how and why health care debt is driving down the health of our nation. This book is a passionate and inspiring expression of the importance of empowering community leaders and their residents to advocate for affordable, accessible, and equitable health care before it's too late. It provides the roadmap, now it's up to all of us to heed the charge.
Usually, doctors keep themselves aloof from their patients' financial troubles, but not Luke Messac. Your Money or Your Life shows how medical debt and the fear of debt decimate family finances and prevent sick people from seeking needed care. Dr. Messac, a historian and emergency physician, is one of our most important critics of the US health system. His voice is engaging and compassionate, and we must listen.
In Your Money or Your Life, Luke Messac weaves together the compelling, and true, story of how medical debt collection became so aggressive and its real-world impact. Taking readers on a remarkable - and eminently readable - journey through the history and practice of medical debt collection...this great book demonstrates how these events are not aberrations or one-off errors in judgment, but baked into the design of American health care and the institutions that profit from the sidelines. Dr. Messac's book proves that it will take more than occasional finger wagging or modest reforms around the edges to ensure that patients and doctors are no longer debtors and creditors. Everyone, and I do mean everyone, should read Your Money or Your Life.
In Your Money or Your Life, Dr. Messac provides a piercing and must-read investigation into how medical debt came to be such a powerful and grim force in American medicine. To create change for the millions of American families beset by the financial toxicity of our health care system, we must learn from this difficult history.
Messac (Harvard Medical School) makes it clear that the root causes of these issues are health-care system flaws more than immoral or callous insurance companies, hospital CEOs, lawyers, or collection agencies. This great, quick read demonstrates why chastising and removing bad actors will never be a substitute for systemic health financing reform.
Notă biografică
Luke Messac is an emergency physician and historian at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an instructor at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the history and political economy of health care. His work has been covered by The New York Times and published in The New England Journal of Medicine, and his first book, No More to Spend, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020.