Our church was one of the churches interviewed for this article – we’re the one with “jubilee” in the name! Many churches are starting to deal with medical debt through RIP Medical Debt.
Churches Are Forgiving Medical Debt for Pennies. Yours Can Too | Sojourners
An analysis by the North Carolina State Health Plan and the National Academy for State Health Policy found that taxpayer-funded COVID relief gave a huge wealth transfer to North Carolina’s seven dominant hospital systems. While patients and rural hospitals suffered, wealthy hospital systems enjoyed record profits and a $7.1 billion growth in cash and investments during the pandemic.
Click here to read the article and download the study:
https://www.shpnc.org/what-the-health/nc-hospitals-profit-during-covid
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A recent investigation by Kaiser Health News and NPR reveals that 100 million Americans have significant medical debt. This is far more pervasive than previously reported.
“Debt is no longer just a bug in our system. It is one of the main products,” said Dr. Rishi Manchanda, who has worked with low-income patients in California for more than a decade and served on the board of the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt. “We have a health care system almost perfectly designed to create debt.”
https://khn.org/news/article/diagnosis-debt-investigation-100-million-americans-hidden-medical-debt/
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