• Medical debt refers to debt incurred by individuals due to health care costs and related expenses, such as an ambulance ride or the cost of visiting a...
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  • Undue Medical Debt, formerly RIP Medical Debt, is a Long Island City–based 501(c)(3) charity focused on the elimination of personal medical debt. Founded...
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    Arizonans' medical debts. Using the funds from the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, Arizona will task the RIP Medical Debt organization to buy medical debt held...
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  • In finance, unsecured debt refers to any type of debt or general obligation that is not protected by a guarantor, or collateralized by a lien on specific...
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  • discrimination against prospective employees, discrimination against medical and student debt holders, poor risk predictability, manipulation of credit scoring...
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    The national debt of the United States is the total national debt owed by the federal government of the United States to Treasury security holders. The...
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    than $60,000 to purchase almost $15 million in bad debt, medical debt from Texas. Oliver forgave the debt in its entirety, and claimed that it was the largest...
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    people with credit card debt are more likely than others to forgo medical care than others and that the likelihood of forgone medical care increases with...
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    pay debt. Until the mid-19th century, debtors' prisons (usually similar in form to locked workhouses) were a common way to deal with unpaid debt in Western...
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    two former debt collections executives Craig Antico and Jerry Ashton to create RIP Medical Debt, a charity that buys up delinquent medical debt at pennies...
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