Death to Medical Debt! with Allison Sesso

Factually! with Adam Conover

Headgum

Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Our abusive, for-profit healthcare system has left Americans swimming in harmful medical debt. On this week’s episode, Adam meets someone who’s doing something about it: Allison Sesso, executive director of RIP Medical Debt, a non-profit which uses donations to buy and abolish medical debt for good. Check them out at ripmedicaldebt.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This is a Headgun Podcast.
0:04.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.0	I don't know the way.
0:10.0	I don't know what to think.
0:13.0	I don't know what to say.
0:16.0	You have to get to my heart.
0:19.0	You have to get to my heart.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.0	Hello and welcome to Factually.
0:30.0	Adam Khan over here.
0:31.0	Thank you for joining me once again on the show.
0:33.0	It's a pleasure to have you here.
0:35.0	Let's talk about one of the weirdest things about America.
0:39.0	That's right.
0:40.0	I'm talking about how we pay for healthcare.
0:43.0	On an almost mathematical level,
0:45.0	it is stupid, nonsense, and we are doing it the wrong way.
0:50.0	Let's break it down.
0:51.0	Health problems can afflict anyone at any time.
0:55.0	And in fact, eventually, we'll hit you.
0:57.0	I mean, human plus time equals you got to go to the hospital eventually.
1:01.0	All right.
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