End Medical Debt

Updated and Expanded Covid Recovery Edition

  Founders of the charity, RIPMedical 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 voracious 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