Month: July 2023

Jul

2023

Medical Debt Forgiveness and Veterans

Many people are excited about our efforts to abolish medical debt in our area. But did you know that the Veterans Administration does not allow veterans’ debts to be discharged? RIP Medical Debt co-founder Jerry Ashton (a Navy veteran himself) is on a campaign to change that – and he’s using our Jubilee Project as an example!

Ashton has started a new organization, Veteran Mission Possible, to work on convincing the Veteran’s Administration to change their policies and allow our veterans to discharge their crushing medical debt when it is beyond their means. Often the debt is beyond their means because of ongoing problems caused by their faithful service to the country! If there is a debt that it is owed, it is a debt of a thankful nation to those who served faithfully.

#EndVetMedDebt

Jul

2023

French Newspaper Features Debt Jubilee Project

La Croix reporter Gilles Biassette visits with Trinity Moravian Church pastor, the Rev. John Jackman in WInston-Salem, NC.

La Croix reporter Gilles Biassette (left) visits with Trinity Moravian Church pastor, the Rev. John Jackman in WInston-Salem, NC.

La Croix, a daily Catholic newspaper based in Paris, sent a reporter, Gilles Biassette, to New York and Winston-Salem to do a feature article on the Debt Jubilee Project and RIP Medical Debt. Mssr. Biassette visited Winston-Salem on June, 22, 2023, when he had an extensive interview with the Rev. John Jackman, the pastor of Trinity Moravian Church and leading organizer of the Debt Jubilee Project. He took a tour of the historic Salem properties, as well as interviewing several volunteers involved in the project.

Principally, the numerous international articles about the Debt Jubilee Project have focussed on the broken US healthcare finance model; the La Croix article also focussed on the victims of the model, who are often poor or on fixed incomes.

Read the original article in French (PAYWALL):

Read the article in English (PDF)