Lucy Marcil: Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms
ルーシー・マーシル: 医者が待合室で納税申告の手続きを無料で支援する理由
Lucy Marcil is providing fiscal services to low-income families in the doctor’s waiting room. Full bio
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your doctor ask you about sex?
聞かれたことのある人は何人いますか
いたって一般的ですが
your doctor ask you about money?
聞かれたことのある人は?
compared to most high-income countries,
大半の高所得国と比べて
in the United States.
感染症のように蔓延しているのですから
stress hormone levels
times more likely to die
and I started asking moms about money.
母親達にお金について聞くことにしました
what a doctor's visit looks like,
健康な人生を送る機会を提供するために
at a healthy life.
私たちは分かっていたのです
to a surprising solution:
解決策に至りました
tax credit, or EITC,
すなわち EITC こそ
we have in the US.
処方箋だと判明したのです
thousand dollars a year from it.
1人につき年に2000~3000ドルです
moms and babies are healthier:
母親と赤ちゃんは健康です
重いのです
who could get it doesn't,
控除を受けていませんし
lose of hundreds of dollars
営利目的の申告書作成代行業者への支払いで
tax-preparation industry.
why we couldn't do her taxes
できないの?」と聞く母親がいました
Why not make good use of that time?
あの時間を有効利用できないでしょうか
「StreetCred」ー
tax preparation in clinics serving kids.
支援する組織を立ち上げたのです
questioning our sanity.
税理士ではないのです
税理士にはないものがあります
see a doctor at least once a year.
1年に1回は必ず医者にかかります
to give them a better life.
何でもします
could be doing this work, too --
この取り組みに参加できるでしょう
as a tax-preparation site,
登録すれば
students to retirees,
あらゆる人が
申告書類作成ボランティアになれます
after passing an IRS exam.
保証します
I would be doing other people's taxes,
絶対しないと思っていましたが
もうすぐ3年になります
1.6 million dollars
160万ドルの還付を受けました
to nine sites in four states.
4つの州の 9か所に増やしました
have never heard of the EITC.
EITCの事を聞いたことがありませんでした
you haven't heard of?
手に入れる手続きなどできますか
free tax preparation.
利用したことがありませんでした
for a mom and two young kids
栄養十分で低コストの食事を摂るには
can eat for five to six months.
5~6ヶ月分の食費を捻出できるのです
lack access to care
現代小児医学の標準的な治療を
is only 400 dollars per kid per year.
わずか 年平均400ドルです
this access problem.
医療が受けられない問題を是正できます
for her son to study abroad in Spain.
息子のスペイン留学の費用に充てました
大きな負担ではありましたが
as his shot at a better future.
豊かな未来への扉と映りました
そしてアメリカ国民として
チャンスがです
the causes of poor health,
再考することができるのです
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lucy Marcil - Pediatrician, social entrepreneurLucy Marcil is providing fiscal services to low-income families in the doctor’s waiting room.
Why you should listen
Lucy Marcil, MD MPH, creates innovative solutions buffering kids from the adversity they face growing up with economic stress and poverty. As a pediatrician, she cares for children at Boston Medical Center. She co-founded StreetCred, a nonprofit addressing the health impact of financial stress by providing fiscal services to low-income families in the the doctor’s waiting room. StreetCred increases access to critical anti-poverty tax credits such as the Earned Income Tax Credit by integrating tax preparation services into pediatric clinics; it has returned over $3.2 million to 1700 clients at 9 sites in 4 states since its inception in 2016. StreetCred is now bundling tax services with enrollment in other economic mobility services to create greater financial stability.
Internationally, Dr. Marcil has undertaken pediatric health-systems strengthening. As a HIV/AIDS & Community Health Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia, she leveraged public-private partnerships to create a comprehensive orphan care program and girls’ leadership camps. In Bangladesh, she identified community engagement methods to build maternal-child healthcare systems in urban slums. In Kenya, she consulted for Jacaranda Health to transform newborn care systems.
For her work, Dr. Marcil has been recognized with the American Academy of Pediatrics Anne E. Dyson Child Advocacy Award and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Quinn Prize, and has been named a Café 100, Davidson College Game Changer and 2018 TED Fellow.
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