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Allison Sesso

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As seen in: HuffPost, New York Daily News, MS NOW, STAT, Crain's New York Business, Crain's Chicago Business, Times Union (Albany), Stanford Social Innovation Review, NewsBreak, The Chronicle of Philanthropy and
President / CEO of RIP Medical Debt. Right to Be___ Board Member. Social Change Advocate. All views expressed are mine.
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National View: Minnesotans can act to ease our medical-debt crisis

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By Allison Sesso
| Duluth News Tribune
“I cannot begin to tell you the burden you have taken off of my family’s shoulders,” says Tina of Rosemount, Minnesota, upon learning that nearly $1,000 of her family’s medical debt had been erased. Tina is no stranger to making ends meet. As a mother of seven, her kids' needs always come first.
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A Margin for Error: How Big Gifts Help Nonprofits Go From Surviving to Thriving

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By Allison Sesso
| Center for Effective Philantropy
I am still pinching myself from the first gift we received from MacKenzie Scott in December of 2020 — and somehow Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt) has now received three. What these gifts presented to us was an unprecedented opportunity to approach our work brazenly and with room for error, an opportunity rarely afforded to nonprofits picking up the pieces of broken social and economic systems.
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Medical debt shows health insurance is insufficient: Opinion

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By Allison Sesso
| Crain's Chicago Business
A clinical psychologist, Mashana has lived in the Chicago area her whole life and is no stranger to medical debt. Not only does she have a chronic autoimmune disease but her daughter struggles with mental health issues and is on the autism spectrum. “There is a highly emotional component to (medical debt)," she says. "It is incredibly stressful. It weighs on you.
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