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The Price of Inequality: How Today's Divided Society Endangers Our Future

by Joseph E. Stiglitz · 10 Jun 2012 · 580pp · 168,476 words

, between 2001 and 2007, the share of bankruptcies attributable to medical problems rose by 49.6%.” D. Himmelstein, D. Thorne, E. Warren, and S. Woolhandler, “Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study,” American Journal of Medicine 122, no. 8 (2009): 741–46. In terms of getting at

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

by Bruce Cannon Gibney · 7 Mar 2017 · 526pp · 160,601 words

mistakes and crafted remedial laws in response; with their errors absolved, bankruptcy reform can trend toward the punitive, except, of course, in the case of medical bankruptcies, where we can expect the Boomers to indulge in more legislative forgiveness. Repayment Despite its alarming size, the national debt neither can be nor should

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide

by Steven W. Thrasher · 1 Aug 2022 · 361pp · 110,233 words

-are-drowning-in-medical-debt-what-to-know-if-you-need-help.html. bankruptcies in the United States: Kimberly Amadeo, “Medical Bankruptcy and the Economy,” Balance, April 30, 2021, https://www.thebalance.com/medical-bankruptcy-statistics-4154729. nation on the planet: Rabah Kamal, Giorlando Ramirez, and Cynthia Cox, “How Does Health Spending in the

The Unbanking of America: How the New Middle Class Survives

by Lisa Servon · 10 Jan 2017 · 279pp · 76,796 words

,” The New Yorker, April 21, 2014. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/04/21/the-warren-brief left one partner economically: David Himmelstein et al., “Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study,” American Journal of Medicine, vol. 22, no. 9 (August 2009). http://www.amjmed.com/article

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: The Most Popular Provision in the ACA?” Washington, DC: The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 2011. Himmelstein, David, Deborah Thorne, Elizabeth Warren, and Steffie Woolhandler. “Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study.” American Journal of Medicine, vol. 22, no. 9 (2009). Huang, Daniel. “New Rules Will Change

Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream

by Arianna Huffington · 7 Sep 2010 · 300pp · 78,475 words

percent of all personal bankruptcies in America in 2007.75 Using that rate, roughly 900,000 of 2009’s 1.4 million bankruptcy filings were medical bankruptcies.76 Or, to put it another way: Just over every thirty seconds someone in this country files for bankruptcy in the wake of a serious

Poverty for Profit

by Anne Kim · 384pp · 112,825 words

.S. Compared to Other High-Income Countries (Washington, D.C.: The Commonwealth Fund, 2021). 24. David U. Himmelstein, Deborah Thorne, Elizabeth Warren, and Steffi Woolhandler, “Medical Bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a National Study,” American Journal of Medicine 122, no. 8 (August 2009); Scott Gottlieb, “Medical Bills Account for

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

by Cathy O'Neil · 5 Sep 2016 · 252pp · 72,473 words

/default/files/publications/Discredited-Demos.pdf. the single biggest cause of bankruptcies: Christina LaMontagne, “NerdWallet Health Finds Medical Bankruptcy Accounts for Majority of Personal Bankruptcies,” NerdWallet, March 26, 2014, www.nerdwallet.com/blog/health/medical-costs/medical-bankruptcy/. white households held on average: Tami Luhby, “The Black-White Economic Divide in 5 Charts,” CNN

Private Island: Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else

by James Meek · 18 Aug 2014 · 232pp · 77,956 words

a child’s illness. ‘While the Affordable Care Act will reduce the overall number of bankruptcies, and arguably eliminate the most morally objectionable causes of medical bankruptcy, in a system based on market principles there will – and must – be consumers whose own bad choices spell financial trouble,’ he writes. ‘For society to

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Mar 2016 · 366pp · 94,209 words

, Dapps,” github.com, June 9, 2014. 44. Nakamoto, “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” 45. National Patient Advocate Foundation, “Issue Brief: Medical Debt, Medical Bankruptcy and the Impact on Patients,” npaf.org, September 2012. 46. Dan Mangan, “Medical Bills Are the Biggest Cause of US Bankruptcies: Study,” cnbc.com, June

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25, 2013. 47. National Patient Advocate Foundation, “Issue Brief: Medical Debt, Medical Bankruptcy and the Impact on Patients.” 48. rollingjubilee.org. 49. Interview with Astra Taylor, cofounder of Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee, conducted by e-mail

MacroWikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams · 28 Sep 2010 · 552pp · 168,518 words

World Factbook. See: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2102rank.html. 9. D. U. Himmelstein, D. Thorne, E. Warren, et al., “Medical bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: Results of a national study,” The American Journal of Medicine (August 2009). 10. Karen Pallarito, “Government to Pay for More

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In Waste Be Cut Annually From The U.S. Healthcare System?” Thomson Reuters (October 27, 2009). 7. D. Himmelstein, D. Thorne, E. Warren, et al., ”Medical bankruptcy in the United States, 2007: results of a national study,” American Journal of Medicine (August 2009). 8. J. Lubitz and G. Riley, “Trends in Medicare