emergency physician, author of Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine. Opinions my own. attending @BrighamWomens, @harvardmed
Providence, RI
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*NEW STUDY in JAMA Internal Medicine*
Where do our healthcare dollars go? We looked at one part of the answer: corporate shareholders.
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Virtual: Tu, Sep 17 @ 12pm - "The Transformation of Medical Debt Collection and the Financialization of Health Care Delivery" @LukeMessac @UCBerkeleySPH @OxUniPress - mailchi.mp/berkeley.edu/virt…
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Millions of Americans are burdened by medical debt
With negative consequences for their finances, healthcare access, and physical and mental health
Since day one, @VP Kamala Harris has spearheaded @WhiteHouse policy to reduce this burden
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We are the only major country on Earth where an emergency visit to a hospital can cause patients to lose their homes and their life savings because of the high cost of medical care.
Getting sick in America should not mean going bankrupt, losing your home, car, or life savings.
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Just want to underscore the level of heroism underway here: Sen. Tammy Duckworth has been working to evacuate Dr. Adam Hamawy (who saved her life after her helicopter crash) from the hospital the IDF is besieging and bombing. But he and his colleagues have insisted they not leave unless the IDF allows in a new rotation, otherwise the patients will all die and the IDF will overrun the hospital and leave it in ruins as they have done to every other hospital in Gaza.
Five staff were evacuated today but Hamawy refused to go, leaving his body on the line to defend and to treat his patients. He is effectively saying, if they are going to kill everyone in the hospital, they'll have to kill him too.
🚨Update: Israel offered to evacuate Dr. Hamawy and others from the hospital but refused to allow new medical aid workers to replace them. Five volunteers accepted the offer but Dr. Hamawy refused, insisting on staying with his patients.
He sends this comment through a colleague:
“There is a palpable gloom and foreboding that had set in at the hospital. The children and staff are asking for everyone by name. All the Americans and Brits left. That can’t be a good sign.”
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Ever wonder why your insurer charges a copay for statins (and other high-value meds)?
Don’t they want to prevent heart attacks, strokes, etc?
Copays never made sense to me.
In this new paper in @QJEHarvard, we show copays kill. 🧵
tinyurl.com/nhk4v93f
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A statement by our faculty at Columbia and Barnard. More to come. I am behind every word.
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How can we build an economy enabling all people to have what they need to experience wellbeing?
Excited to announce a new Health & Political Economy Project to tackle such questions. @DarrickHamilton @victorroy
Join us for our 4/2 launch event in NYC! bit.ly/newagendahealth
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In a recent episode of the Dig, @astradisastra interviewed @LukeMessac on the causes of the United States’ medical debt crisis, and the hospital as a site for labor organizing and mobilization. Their conversation is now available to read as a transcript.
jacobin.com/2024/03/us-medic…
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Rest in Power @Howard Hiatt!
Howard Hiatt, champion of global public health and former Harvard dean, dies at 98 bostonglobe.com/2024/03/03/n… via @BostonGlobe
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Have you seen the news of city & state officials announcing medical debt jubilees?
As someone who helped develop this tactic, you'd think I'd be thrilled. I'm not.
For @PostOpinions Luke Messac & I break down why public officials can and must do more.
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wapo.st/4bTZJHZ
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"I have worked in other war zones. But what I witnessed in Gaza was not war — it was annihilation." latimes.com/opinion/story/20…
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Missed the fantastic Book Launch 📚 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine'? Catch up now! Watch the brilliant conversation on medical debt and social justice with @LukeMessac & @lindseymuniak, moderated by @gregggonsalves.
lpeproject.org/events/your-m…
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US readers, enter to win a copy of "Your Money or Your Life" by @LukeMessac, a clear-eyed account of the multibillion-dollar medical debt industry. On @goodreads here: oxford.ly/3MS5ye5
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The video of “Medical Debt and Racial Justice,” a conversation between @LukeMessac and @kenyonfarrow, hosted by @haymarketbooks.
Covers a lot of specifics about the history, racial politics, and political economy of U.S. healthcare and the debt crisis.
m.youtube.com/live/StTxB7D-U…
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On the OUP blog, @LukeMessac --author of "Your Money or Your Life"-- explores 5 frequently misunderstood details about medical debt in America. Read now: oxford.ly/46pVFv3
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📢📚Please Join us on Nov 29th, 4 PM ET for the Book Launch of 'Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine' w/ @LukeMessac in conversation w/ @lindseymuniak & @gregggonsalves. A must-attend for anyone passionate about healthcare justice! lpeproject.org/events/your-m…
