A listener fighting the good fight

An Arm and a Leg

Society & Culture, Medicine, Health, Health & Fitness, Documentary

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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A few weeks ago, a listener sent us a note with a link to a news article about a new resolution that had recently been adopted by the American Medical Association – the largest group representing doctors in the US.

The resolution said: hospitals need to do more to guarantee charity care to patients who qualify. Legislators and regulators should make them.

Our listener was the author of that resolution, and he told us he first learned about charity care through this podcast.

His name is Joey Ballard and he’s an internal medicine resident at the University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC).

We talked with him about his early organizing as a medical student, bringing the resolution to the AMA, and the optimism he feels bringing the fight for charity care to the hospital he works at now.

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0:25.2	Thank you so much.
0:27.1	All right.
0:27.5	Here's the show.
0:31.6	Hey there.
0:32.9	A few weeks ago, we put out an update about charity care.
0:36.1	That's the commitment by hospitals to lower
0:38.0	or just forgive bills for folks who can't pay them. And our story was partly about how much
0:43.1	less charity care hospitals give out than their own policies say they should. And a few days
0:49.3	later, I got an email from a listener. I'm Joey Ballard, and I'm an internal medicine resident.
0:55.8	Joey sent me a link.
0:58.0	The American Medical Association, or AMA, the country's largest group representing doctors,
1:03.6	and, for a long time, one of the most powerful lobbying groups in the country,
1:08.7	had just passed a resolution supporting legislation that would
1:12.0	require hospitals to do more.
1:15.8	Joey said he was the original author of that resolution.
1:19.3	He had proposed it as a medical student, and he had gotten the idea from listening to this
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