End Medical Debt: Curing America's $1 Trillion Unpayable Healthcare Debt
Idioma: inglés
Editorial: Media Visions Press, 2018
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Librería: World of Books Inc, Montgomery, IL, Estados Unidos de AmericaWorld of Books Inc
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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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- Título
- End Medical Debt: Curing America's $1 Trillion Unpayable Healthcare Debt
- Autor
- Ashton Jerry
- Editorial
- Media Visions Press
- Año de publicación
- 2018
- Estado
- Very Good
- Encuadernación
- Paperback
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 10
- 0989224120
- ISBN 13
- 9780989224123
In our urgent public debates about our broken healthcare system, we have overlooked the devastating personal and social impact of America’s medical debt crisis. Millions of Americans face $1 trillion in unpayable medical debt!
The three authors of End Medical Debt in 2014 began RIP Medical Debt, a tax-exempt charity that locates, buys and forgives medical debt. RIP first came to America's attention in 2016 when HBO's "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver" used the charity to abolish $15 million in medical debt. In response to public support since then, by the end of 1018, RIP had abolished a half billion dollars in medical debt for 250,000 Americans in communities across the country.
From their distinct viewpoints as debt collections and healthcare administration insiders, the three authors take a realistic look at our healthcare system, revealing how and why we got into this mess of skyrocketing costs, shrinking insurance coverage, rising deductibles, and mounting medical debt. They view debt forgiveness as a necessary interim solution until we agree on a better financial structure for our unhealthy healthcare system.
End Medical Debt delves into the most popular proposed solutions -- repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, insurance reform, drug price controls, adding a Medicare Option to the ACA fo9r those over age 50 or 55, and Medicare-for-All (single-payer universal healthcare). The book concludes with the call for an American Medical Debt Commission that reports to Congress annually about the national medical debt crisis.
The book further presents practical tips for those burdened by personal medical debt.
The authors are industry insiders:
Jerry Ashton -- 40 years in the credit and collections industry.
Robert Goff -- 40 years in healthcare administration management.
Craig Antico -- 30 years in collections, debt buying and consulting.
Robert Goff and Jerry Ashton are the co-authors of The Patient, The Doctor and The Bill Collector: A Medical Debt Survival Guide, published in 2016 by Hoku House.
The authors are donating 100 percent of their royalties to forgiving medical debt.
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Praise for the book::
“I went into the hospital overnight, and the bill was $25,000. It’s time to lift the yoke off the necks of the most vulnerable and defenseless members of society — precisely what End Medical Debt does.”
-- Alan Grayson, Former U.S. Congressman
“End Medical Debt demonstrates what was always the solution: People helping people, voluntarily and without coercion. Humanity at its best.”
-- Ernest Hancock, Publisher, FreedomsPhoenix
“End Medical Debt explains why only Americans risk the probability that medical treatment will be financially inaccessible or that a family will be made destitute from a serious injury or disease.”
-- Nancy A. Niparko, M.D., Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
"Jerry Ashton, Robert Goff and Craig Antico are putting lifetimes of experience to work in End Medical Debt to spread the word that medical debt is a personal and national crisis. They are offering answers that are gaining national attention."
-- Kevin A. Cahill, New York State Assembly; Chair, Assembly Committee on Insurance Health
"End Medical Debt is exactly what we need to jumpstart the national discussion about our dysfunctional for-profit health care system, and what to do about it, so patients like me don’t have to experience the financial and personal hardships caused by medical debt. We are a forgotten, disposable, invisible universe of people. There are millions of us. This book explains with passion and honesty the nightmare of medical debt."
-- Joel R. Segal, Former senior legislative assistant, U.S. Congress. Co-author, HR 676: "Medicare For All”
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Robert Goff - Retired from 40 years in the healthcare industry, Robert E. Goff is a consulting expert in care delivery, organization and financing. His leadership roles include hospital administrator, regulator, managed care executive, association executive, educator, and entrepreneur. He developed one of the first for-profit HMOs in NY State. He was head of the University Physicians Network in NY. Robert became RIP's founding board member.
Craig Antico - A financial industry leader in collections, debt buying, outscouring, and consulting, Craig's 30-year career features work with IBM, Johnson & Johnson, collection agencies, and medical distributors. An expert in data anaytics, he cofounded the distressed debt exchange, eDebt. He joined Jerry Ashton at CFO Advisors. Today Craig is the co-founder, Chair and CEO of RIP Medical Debt.
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