End Medical Debt: Curing America's Healthcare Crisis (Covid recovery edition) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781737398509)

Updated and Expanded Covid Recovery Edition

- Founders of the charity, RIP Medical Debt

Introduction by Allison Sesso

Edited by Judah Freed

Prior 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.

• Paints 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.

"End Medical Debt is one of the best books I've read that explains how our healthcare system became a vorac-ious 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.