by External Article | Aug 15, 2022 | Finances |
After helping Occupy Wall Street activists buy debt for a few years, Antico and Ashton launched RIP Medical Debt in 2014. They started raising money from donors to buy up debt on secondary markets — where hospitals sell debt for pennies on the dollar to companies that... 
by External Article | Oct 16, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finances |
More than half of the debt in collections stems from medical care, which, unlike most other debt, is often taken on without a choice or an understanding of the costs. The sickest patients are often the most indebted, and they’re not exempt from arrest. In Indiana, a... 
by External Article | Sep 3, 2019 | Care Work Library, Finances |
Ms. Price, 40, a nurse and local 4-H leader, has been sued five times by Carlsbad Medical Center, for bills totaling more than $17,000. It’s not because she and her children are uninsured; according to the hospital, the charges are what she owed after her insurer had... 
by External Article | Aug 11, 2019 | Art, Care Work Library, Finances, Grief |
A young widow who lost her husband to cancer nearly drowned in grief and medical debt. Now Fumiko Chino is a cancer doctor who sees her own tragedy play out in other patients. Too often people are underinsured and financially burdened by the cost of cancer care. Faced... 
by Kaiser Health News | Jul 20, 2018 | Caregiver News, Finances |
After a devastating horse-riding accident in January 2017 landed him in the hospital for about 30 days, requiring trauma care and hospital-based therapy, Jeff Woodard considered himself lucky. The bills amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars. But Woodard’s... 
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