Will Medical Debt get a Blue Waive

America Dissected

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Over the past several years, cities, counties, and states have elected to relieve their residents’ medical debt. That’s cascaded into a national movement to relieve it — which has been picked up by the likes of Vice President Kamala Harris in her presidential campaign. Abdul reflects on the particular pain of medical debt. Then he interviews Allison Sesso, President and CEO of Undue Medical Debt, the nation’s leading non-profit for medical debt relief. This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: Marguerite Casey Foundation: Join the MCF Book Club at CaseyGrants.org/BookClub. Rhone: Upgrade your closet with Rhone and use AD to save 20% at https://www.rhone.com/AD. Blueland: Reinvent cleaning essentials to be better for you and the planet, with the same powerful clean you’re used to. Right now, get 15% off your first order by going to Blueland.com/america.

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1:19.0	This is America Disected. I'm your host Dr. Obdool Alsait. Let me just put this out there.
1:32.2	Medical debt really should not exist. It's the consequence of people doing the natural thing in an unnatural system.
1:39.0	Because we live in the only high-income country in the world doesn't guarantee its citizens a basic
1:44.4	modicum of health care, Americans routinely have to choose between their health or
1:48.5	their financial health, and that's no decision at all. It's why the accumulated medical debt in this country
1:54.6	is a whopping $225 billion.
1:57.6	It's greater than the GDP of most U.S. states.
2:00.6	As I shared in a previous episode,
2:02.1	here in Wain County, we're investing $7 million of
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