The Dig: Your Money Or Your Life w/ Luke Messac
Discussing medical debt and the suffering it causes.
February 8, 2024
1 hr 52 min
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February 8, 2024
The Dig: Your Money Or Your Life w/ Luke Messac
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<p>Featuring Luke Messac on <em>Your Money or Your Life: Debt Collection in American Medicine</em>. An estimated 100 million people in the US are in debt because they sought medical treatment. Medical debt exacerbates poor and working-class people's physical and psychological suffering while undermining their financial well-being and freedom.</p><br /><p>Support The Dig at <a href="http://Patreon.com/TheDig" rel="nofollow">Patreon.com/TheDig</a></p><br /><p>Subscribe to a year of <em>Jewish Currents</em> at <a href="http://secure.jewishcurrents.org/forms/subscribe" rel="nofollow">secure.jewishcurrents.org/forms/subscribe</a> 50% off with special code DIG2024</p><br /><p>Buy <em>What Was Neoliberalism</em> at <a href="http://haymarketbooks.org/books/2056-what-was-neoliberalism" rel="nofollow">haymarketbooks.org/books/2056-what-was-neoliberalism</a></p>
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