IN 2008, THE HOSPITAL WHERE I WORKED—A Level II trauma center just outside Chi
cago—was $54 million in debt. Everyone seemed to be aware of this fact; the figure floated …

A riveting exposé of medical debt collection in America--and the profound financial and
physical costs eroding patient trust in medicine For the crime of falling sick without wealth …

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Poised to emerge from more than two years of court protection from its creditors, Crouse
Hospital in Syracuse, NY, is preparing to take on some new debt in order to put a five-year …

Medical debt a ects more than 100 million adult Americans and totals $195 billion. 1 More
than half of all bankruptcies in the United States are tied to medical issues. 2 And medical …

IT is a great honor and a personal pleasure to be the first Duncan Clark lecturer. We served
together on the study section of the National Center for Health Services Research, a little …

This study uses interviews, archival research, participant-observation, and analysis of a
novel database of hospital financial assistance policies to chronicle patient-debtor-activists …

The problems in the long-term-care industry are positively monstrous. While many
executives are pointing and screaming at Medicare cuts, lurking in the shadows are some …

Four pages into this volume there is a figure that compares health care spending in the
United States to that in seven other industrialized countries. Five of the seven are shown to …

Most perversely, health care debt prevents many people from getting health care. The most
significant statistic in today's avaricious world of health care finance is this: Half of US adults …