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            31 year ago

            I moved here as an adult from the east coast so I don’t have to guess. The list of reasons might take a while to write up.

            I do love the lack if humidity, if I have to say something nice. :)

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    311 year ago

    Now this “uplifting” story really has it all. Death, loss, a system of injustice and the sense that even if successful after all is done it will not even address a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the outstanding medical debt.

    The only thing more “uplifting” about this would be that one country keeps thinking these stories are not keeping people up at night.

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      1 year ago

      The medical companies already sold the debt to debt servicing companies. It’s the debt collectors who are profiting, or (more likely) taking less of a loss on bad debt.

      Also, they didn’t pay USD$15 million. They paid $150,000 to buy $15 million of debt at a penny on the dollar.

      The organization that does this acknowledges that it’s a stopgap in the face of the human rights nightmare that is the USA’s healthcare system. It’s palliative care or harm reduction but not a long-term solution.

      Medicare for all.

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    131 year ago

    As of late Friday morning, her campaign with the New York-based nonprofit had raised nearly $140,000 of her $150,000 goal, amid a climate in which an estimated 100 million Americans are saddled with a total of about $195bn in medical debt.

    The US does not offer a universal healthcare system for its citizens.