[ExI] from Premium This is True

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 17:43:42 UTC 2020


They're not the first I've heard doing it.
https://money.cnn.com/2016/06/06/technology/john-oliver-medical-debt/index.html
is a famous instance of this from a few years ago.

On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 9:11 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> *This sounds terrific, but of course I cannot vouch for the organization
> whose link is below:*
>
> *Love Thy Neighbor:* The Rev. Minna Bothwell asked the congregation of
> the Capitol Hill Lutheran Church in Des Moines, Iowa, to think about how
> the church could expand their mission. What nonprofit could they fund that
> would be in keeping with their Biblical ideals? The congregation suggested
> an organization that buys up medical debt, and then forgives the people who
> owed it: they walk away with no debt, and no more creditors calling. The
> church called RIP Medical Debt and asked “how much money it would take to
> forgive all the medical debt in Polk County,” Bothwell said. “They
> responded, ‘With what you have, you could forgive [medical] debt in all of
> Iowa’.” It only took about $8,000 for the church to fund the organization
> in buying up $5 million worth of medical debt owed by Iowans. “We’ve seen
> firsthand what debt has done to families, and how hard it can be,” Rev.
> Bothwell said. It was so easy, the church is now raising $15,000 to zero
> out all the medical debt in Missouri. “2020 has been a rough year for
> everyone,” she said. “Our goal as a congregation is to give people a good
> start on 2021.
>
> https://ripmedicaldebt.org/about/
>
> bill w
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