Your Money Or Your Life - Debt Collection in American Medicine

A powerful history of how medical debt destabilized the American healthcare system - and how we can build back relationships in medicine that benefit everyone.

List of contents

• Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• Chapter 1: Before the Debt Machine


• Chapter 2: No Mercy


• Chapter 3: Trading in Misery


• Chapter 4: Shame


• Chapter 5: My Day in Court


• Chapter 6: An Incomplete Answer


• Chapter 7: From Here


• Conclusion

About the author

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.

Summary

A powerful history of how medical debt destabilized the American healthcare system ? and how we can build back relationships in medicine that benefit everyone.

Additional text

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.

Product details

• Authors: MESSAC, Luke Messac, Luke (Resident Physician Messac
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2024
• EAN: 9780197676639
• ISBN: 978-0-19-767663-9
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; USA, MEDICAL / Public Health, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, MEDICAL / History, LAW / Medical Law & Legislation, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, Personal & public health, History of Medicine, Political science & theory, United States of America, USA, Political science and theory, Medical & healthcare law, Personal and public health / health education, Medical and healthcare law, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General, Health & safety issues, Health and safety in the workplace