• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • Store
  • ION Awards
  • Podcasts
  • Full Measure
    • Full Measure Cover Stories
  • Donate
  • Bestseller "Slanted"

Sharyl Attkisson

Untouchable Subjects. Fearless, Nonpartisan Reporting.

  • US
  • World
  • Business
  • Health
    • Vaccine, Medical links
    • Omicron Lab Origin
    • Covid-19 Origins
    • Covid-19 Natural Immunity
    • Covid-19 Vaccine Concerns Summary
    • Covid-19 Vaccine: 80 Common Adverse Events
  • The Censored
  • Special Investigations
    • Attkisson v. DOJ
    • Media Mistakes, Biden Era
    • Media Mistakes on Trump
    • Other investigations
      • Benghazi
      • "Collusion v. Trump" TL
      • Election 2020
      • Fake News
      • Fast & Furious
      • Obamacare
      • Obama Surveillance TL
      • Other investigations
      • Ukraine 'Sabotage' of Trump TL

Nonprofit pays off medical debt for needy patients

Dated: June 12, 2019 by Sharyl Attkisson 4 Comments

      

Illustration of a bill collector by Fernando Shoiti Schatzmann

Through a novel charitable program and donations from churches, a non-profit organization called "RIP Medical Debt" has successfully paid off the debts of thousands of people (so far). That's according to a report by Kaiser Health News.

A recent surge in donations from churches around the U.S. have contributed to the millions of dollars paid off by RIP, which is based in Rye, N.Y.

Kaiser Health News reports that RIP Medical Debt is using a practice called "debt buying" to help patients saddled with insurmountable medical bills. Debt buying is typically when a debt collection company buys a debt portfolio containing the personal information of hundreds of people who are unable to pay what they owe. The debt collector collects on the money and

RIP Medical Debt purchases these portfolios using money from its donors. However, instead of contacting these people demanding they pay, as debt collectors normally would, RIP Medical Debt completely forgives the debts.

People whose debts are forgiven by RIP are not obligated to them in any way.

When a person has their debt forgiven, we want them to experience that as a kind of no-strings-attached gift.

Richard Camacho, lead pastor of Revolution Annapolis, one of RIP's donors, to Kaiser Health News

Below are requirements for debt forgiveness by RIP:

  • Debtor must be earn less than $25,000 a year
  • Debt must be more than 5% of debtor's annual income
  • Debtor must have more debts than assets
  • Source: Kaiser Health News

Read more here: RIP Medical Debt


      
[the_ad id="17661"]

About Sharyl Attkisson

Emmy-Award Winning Investigative Journalist, New York Times Best Selling Author, Host of Sinclair's Full Measure

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Tina says

    June 13, 2019 at 7:54 am

    What a wonderful ministry!

    Reply
  2. Bruce Smith says

    June 13, 2019 at 7:56 am

    This is great. No wonder Christians are such a threat to the Jabba the Hutt politicians who would decide who gives and who gets, and what their percentage of the take should be for deciding.

    Imagine a world of communities that were, indeed, communities, a world where neighbors knew and looked out for and encouraged each other, schooled each other and assisted each other through their difficulties; all on a voluntary basis. The Mormons have it kind of right but they have their problems and their religion is, at best, strange.

    Reply
  3. DANIEL MEYERS says

    June 13, 2019 at 11:25 am

    giving people money for nothing is generally NOT a good thing, esp as a 3rd party/middleman to pay for things, esp MEDICAL things, which are overpriced in the first place, and now you condone that pricing by paying it.
    People do NOT respect free stuff. Free stuff is wasted abused and condones irresponsibility and screws up punishment/reward that drive behavior.
    everybody knows this, but the emotionally impaired and elitist feelings cause people to throw good money at bad.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Coming Soon

The Bad Shirts: High-Quality, Wearable Humor

The Sharyl Attkisson Store

Buy Great, Original Products & Support Independent Journalism

Subscribe

Get the Latest Stories Straight to Your Inbox

SUBSCRIBE TO SHARYL’S RUMBLE CHANNEL


Follow Sharyl Attkisson

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube



Footer

Pages

  • Home
  • About
  • Podcast
  • Support
  • Contact

Sitemap

2ndary Pages

  • Full Measure Stations
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Newsletter
  • Returns & Refunds Policy

SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS

  • Attkisson v. DOJ/FBI
  • Benghazi
  • Election 2020
  • Fake News
  • Fast & Furious
  • Obamacare

Copyright © 2023 ยท Log in