From Exam Room to Kitchen Table: The Role of Medical Debt in Health
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RIP Medical Debt's 2022 summit, From Exam Room to Kitchen Table: The Role of Medical Debt in Health, comes as the medical debt crisis gains more attention from the media, researchers and lawmakers.
As the pandemic lingers, and a potential recession looms in the near future, medical debt remains a barrier for many in securing economic stability and good health, in addition to impacting historically marginalized people and communities of color more.
Medical debt deepens inequity and the affordability crisis in our country. Further, the stories of people affected by medical debt shine a light on the toxic stress and stigma that comes with medical debt, increasing the urgency for solutions and a shift in the narrative about medical debt from personal failure to systems failure. Our communities, government, industries and the health care system continue to debate solutions to the challenges of medical debt and all face constraints.
This forum will convene multiple perspectives on approaches to ending medical debt and affording people equitable access to the health care they need and deserve. Further, this summit seeks to identify barriers to policy solutions and to amplify the harm that inaction perpetuates for individuals nationwide every day.
Join us on the afternoon of October 12, 2022, via live stream where researchers, experts and industry leaders will contribute to in-depth conversations on the many challenges around the growing problem of unpaid and unpayable medical debt – and the potential pathways to eliminating medical debt.
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