Discussion on the evolution of non-profit hospitals from charity care to community benefit standards, the impact of for-profit hospitals' acquisitions, and the blurred lines between non-profit and for-profit hospitals in care provision and financial practices.
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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