Exploring the impact of medical debt on individuals, this chapter sheds light on the profit-driven healthcare system and the emergence of punitive debt collection practices. It also discusses the ongoing efforts to address unjust medical debt and ensure quality care for all.
Featuring Luke Messac on Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine. An estimated 100 million people in the US are in debt because they sought medical treatment. Medical debt exacerbates poor and working-class people's physical and psychological suffering while undermining their financial well-being and freedom.
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