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I sat there, hating the child, but also angry with my Mother, too. It's like a competition that makes you feel good, you know, like, when it's in a group setting like that. Middle-Grade Graphic Novels (for Readers Ages 9 – 12). If only I weren't burdened with this child. Te-Ping Chen is the author of Land of Big Numbers, a short-story collection published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, Granta, Guernica, Tin House, and The Atlantic. CARMICHAEL: Fun, actually. My Mother sat there like she'd been slapped.
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The pandemic, Branscome adds, exacerbated all of that. "Every day, I'm thinking about what I owe, how I'm going to get out of this... especially with the money coming in just not being enough. Linkle uses her body to pay her debt at a. "A lot of damage will have been done by the time they come in to relieve that debt, " says Mark Rukavina, a program director for Community Catalyst, a consumer advocacy group. Sesso says it just depends on which hospitals' debts are available for purchase. Rukavina says state laws should force hospitals to make better use of their financial assistance programs to help patients. Now a single mother of two, she describes the strain of living with debt hanging over her head.
The nonprofit has boomed during the pandemic, freeing patients of medical debt, thousands of people at a time. RIP buys the debts just like any other collection company would — except instead of trying to profit, they send out notices to consumers saying that their debt has been cleared. Linkle uses her body to pay her debt to god. Sesso says the group is constantly looking for new debt to buy from hospitals: "Call us! We want to talk to every hospital that's interested in retiring debt. The medical debt that followed Logan for so many years darkened her spirits. And about 1 in 5 with any amount of debt say they don't expect to ever pay it off. She had panic attacks, including "pain that shoots up the left side of your body and makes you feel like you're about to have an aneurysm and you're going to pass out, " she recalls.
It's a model developed by two former debt collectors, Craig Antico and Jerry Ashton, who built their careers chasing down patients who couldn't afford their bills. Numerous factors contribute to medical debt, he says, and many are difficult to address: rising hospital and drug prices, high out-of-pocket costs, less generous insurance coverage, and widening racial inequalities in medical debt. "The weight of all of that medical debt — oh man, it was tough, " Logan says. The three major credit rating agencies recently announced changes to the way they will report medical debt, reducing its harm to credit scores to some extent. Linkle uses her body to pay her debt settlement. 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 profit when they collect on that debt. Some hospitals say they want to alleviate that destructive cycle for their patients. They were from a nonprofit group telling her it had bought and then forgiven all those past medical bills. "I would say hospitals are open to feedback, but they also are a little bit blind to just how poorly some of their financial assistance approaches are working out. "I avoided it like the plague, " she says, but avoidance didn't keep the bills out of mind.
"So nobody can come to us, raise their hand, and say, 'I'd like you to relieve my debt, '" she says. Sesso emphasizes that RIP's growing business is nothing to celebrate. They are billed full freight and then hounded by collection agencies when they don't pay. RIP is one of the only ways patients can get immediate relief from such debt, says Jim Branscome, a major donor. "They would have conversations with people on the phone, and they would understand and have better insights into the struggles people were challenged with, " says Allison Sesso, RIP's CEO. It means that millions of people have fallen victim to a U. S. insurance and health care system that's simply too expensive and too complex for most people to navigate.
Policy change is slow. A quarter of adults with health care debt owe more than $5, 000. Plus, she says, "it's likely that that debt would not have been collected anyway. "As a bill collector collecting millions of dollars in medical-associated bills in my career, now all of a sudden I'm reformed: I'm a predatory giver, " Ashton said in a video by Freethink, a new media journalism site. To date, RIP has purchased $6. As NPR and KHN have reported, more than half of U. adults say they've gone into debt in the past five years because of medical or dental bills, according to a KFF poll. Ultimately, that's a far better outcome, she says. 6 million people of debt. Terri Logan (right) practices music with her daughter, Amari Johnson (left), at their home in Spartanburg, S. C. When Logan's daughter was born premature, the medical bills started pouring in and stayed with her for years. New regulations allow RIP to buy loans directly from hospitals, instead of just on the secondary market, expanding its access to the debt. Heywood Healthcare system in Massachusetts donated $800, 000 of medical debt to RIP in January, essentially turning over control over that debt, in part because patients with outstanding bills were avoiding treatment. She was a single mom who knew she had no way to pay.
Then, a few months ago, she discovered a nonprofit had paid off her debt. That money enabled RIP to hire staff and develop software to comb through databases and identify targeted debt faster. Most hospitals in the country are nonprofit and in exchange for that tax status are required to offer community benefit programs, including what's often called "charity care. " 7 billion in unpaid debt and relieved 3.
"We wanted to eliminate at least one stressor of avoidance to get people in the doors to get the care that they need, " says Dawn Casavant, chief of philanthropy at Heywood. However, consumers often take out second mortgages or credit cards to pay for medical services. Then a few months ago — nearly 13 years after her daughter's birth and many anxiety attacks later — Logan received some bright yellow envelopes in the mail. Depending on the hospital, these programs cut costs for patients who earn as much as two to three times the federal poverty level. The "pandemic has made it simply much more difficult for people running up incredible medical bills that aren't covered, " Branscome says. "Hospitals shouldn't have to be paid, " he says. The group says retiring $100 in debt costs an average of $1. For Terri Logan, the former math teacher, her outstanding medical bills added to a host of other pressures in her life, which then turned into debilitating anxiety and depression. Her first performance is scheduled for this summer. RIP CEO Sesso says the group is advising hospitals on how to improve their internal financial systems so they better screen patients eligible for charity care — in essence, preventing people from incurring debt in the first place. A surge in recent donations — from college students to philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, who gave $50 million in late 2020 — is fueling RIP's expansion.
What triggered the change of heart for Ashton was meeting activists from the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011 who talked to him about how to help relieve Americans' debt burden. "I don't know; I just lost my mojo, " she says. Recently, RIP started trying to change that, too. She recoiled from the string of numbers separated by commas. RIP bestows its blessings randomly. RIP Medical Debt does. But many eligible patients never find out about charity care — or aren't told. Yet RIP is expanding the pool of those eligible for relief. After helping Occupy Wall Street activists buy debt for a few years, Antico and Ashton launched RIP Medical Debt in 2014. Nor did Logan realize help existed for people like her, people with jobs and health insurance but who earn just enough money not to qualify for support like food stamps. Logan, who was a high school math teacher in Georgia, shoved it aside and ignored subsequent bills. Eventually, they realized they were in a unique position to help people and switched gears from debt collection to philanthropy. It undermines the point of care in the first place, he says: "There's pressure and despair.
Logan's newfound freedom from medical debt is reviving a long-dormant dream to sing on stage. One criticism of RIP's approach has been that it isn't preventive; the group swoops in after what can be years of financial stress and wrecked credit scores that have damaged patients' chances of renting apartments or securing car loans. Sesso said that with inflation and job losses stressing more families, the group now buys delinquent debt for those who make as much as four times the federal poverty level, up from twice the poverty level. This time, it was a very different kind of surprise: "Wait, what? "But I'm kinda finding it, " she adds. The debt shadowed her, darkening her spirits.
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