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Mx.le Maerin's Luxury Comedy's avatar

Medical debt? Yeah, I'm familiar. And not even mine, but that of my late ex-husband. Trying to pay his medical care while surviving on his disability benefits led to me filing for bankruptcy and losing my house. Twenty years later, I've finally managed to become a homeowner again, but not without a period of squatting in a foreclosed house with no running water or heat and donating plasma so I could live off ramen noodles. That's what bootstraps look like, and no one should have to live that way in the 21st freaking century.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. I love this!

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Napoleon's avatar

The idea of ending credit reports reminds me a lot of the ban the box movement. But which I mean it sounds fine on first glance and after a second of thought would clearly lead to crazy racism.

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GlazedHaim's avatar

DEAR JOE: Pls do something with student loans before you go / it’ll help millions from losing income based repayment and forgiveness options AND piss off all the GOP. Hear my prayers amen

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Biff52, Safe from TX floods's avatar

He's really done a LOT on this front, but the Supremes keep interfering.

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Dorothea is a Democrat's avatar

The only question is how hard the money collectors will lobby trump to repeal this. Because this will affect plenty of trump voters. It might be an indicator on whether or not he cares if his cult is pissed or not. He very well might not anymore. He's not running for reelection however this turns out. If there is enough money in it for him, and he doesn't care how it affects his voters, the rule will be history.

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fawkedifiknow's avatar

You just proved my point.

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Cock Blockula's avatar

I am waiting for some people to be very disgruntled by this. Just as some student loans were forgiven, the usual characters came out from their basements and complained that THEIR student loans weren't forgiven (theirs were paid off decades ago). I have a friend, who is otherwise very liberal, who complained about this. It never set her back. She is much better off financially now that I am currently, and I never had any student loans.

I am gruntled to hear about medical debt being discharged. Thrilled for people whose lives would otherwise be ruined. Let's start making reparations to those who were financially left in tatters, and in some cases, homeless.

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BECKY's avatar

those people are horrible people and there's millions of them out there--and many of them voted for Donald Trump. I call them the zero-empathy people.

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ConfirmedBias's avatar

It happened to me back in the day, my ex left me with all of it and it took me many years to recover my credit. I am over-gruntled!

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Dina's avatar

When my middle son was in his second year of college, he came down with *something* and was quite ill for several days, apparently shooting liquid from both ends. He drove the two hours to my house so Mommy could take care of him for a bit and I was so shocked when I saw him—he was so dehydrated that his lips had begun to pull back, leaving his teeth on view in a very unsettling, skeletal way. I rushed him to the emergency room, where they immediately started pumping him full of fluids and did a few tests to determine what was wrong with him (turned out to be some sort of food-borne illness picked up at a fast-food restaurant). I did all the insurance paperwork because a law had just recently gone into affect that covered him under my family policy as long as he was in school instead of being cut off at 18. Once he was relatively fixed up, I brought him back to my house.

The ensuing two years was a series of fuck-ups that destroyed his credit rating and sent him spiraling into depression. The $2,500 bill had not been paid by Blue Cross and the hospital sent collections after him. Phone calls, letters, and faxes back and forth among us, the hospital, and the insurance company was maddening—the hospital said they submitted the claim but the insurance wouldn't pay, insurance said yes, he was covered, but the hospital never submitted the claim. After awhile, both sides assured us that the bill had been paid only for my son to get another bill and the cycle started all over again. It eventually got straightened out (don't ask me how, I can't even remember because I think he and I have both blocked that time from our memory) and the debt was removed from my son's credit history—but he had a hell of a time getting an apartment and even a particular job because of that debt hanging over his head.

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Cock Blockula's avatar

This country is just fuckin' cruel and about to get more so. I hope Biden can fix a whole slew of things that can't be undone by the tangerine toddler and the reptilians in Congress.

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Colbert Thorenson's avatar

But if we use tax dollars to pay medical debt will there even be any money left to give school vouchers to catholic school parents?

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Stanta Knows's avatar

Bird flu? What's that got to do with the price of eggs. </sarcasm>

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Right? Everyone knows eggs come from a *diner*, fer chrissake.

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YaJagoff's avatar

My therapist told me that a great way to let go of your anger is to write letters to people you hate and then burn them. I did that and I feel much better but I'm wondering... do I keep the letters?

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coco lurks from home's avatar

I avoid that issue by actually sending them.

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

Wayhey!

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Let me sum up's avatar

Private equity forms gobbling up the housing supply should be the primary reason you'll never own a house. That and student loans, just as god and capitalism intended.

Man have we fucked over younger generations.

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GlazedHaim's avatar

I still believe we can do it all America - I like to think we’ve fucked ALL generations.

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Let me sum up's avatar

That's the spirit!

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Craig Nixon's avatar

𝑰'𝒎 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 0 𝒅𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒓 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒉 𝒓𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒏𝒆𝒘𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒆-𝒃𝒚 𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝑾𝒐𝒏𝒌𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆. 𝑰 𝒌𝒆𝒑𝒕 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑱𝒆𝒇𝒇 𝑻𝒊𝒆𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒊 𝒄𝒂𝒏 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒄𝒌, 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒂𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.

𝑪𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝑴𝒔. 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒏𝒌𝒐𝒑𝒇 𝒕𝒐𝒅𝒂𝒚! 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆!

𝑮𝒐𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔!!

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PrimerGray's avatar

I mean, look at all the money you saved by laying off spellcheck.

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Craig Nixon's avatar

Lol...SHIT. The reason any typos I have are missing letters is this sticky keyboard.

Ah, that doesn't sound right, either. You know what I mean...

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PrimerGray's avatar

Your post was a righteous bit of hilarity, if I may say so. I can't read JT because of his lowercase fetish.

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

ROFL, I love that this article attracted a Loribot. The need to slay them is far less frequent these days, but I see not entirely eliminated.

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Stanta Knows's avatar

Still waiting for my Range Rover. I think it's a scam.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

That’s the second or third time I’ve seen that same Lori-bot show up

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Oh really? I probably should have banned her instead of just deleting the dumb spam post. Well, there's always next time...

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

Yah last couple of days I’ve seen the AlinaLoribot couple times usually in the morning

And I haven’t been around that much

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Martini Glambassador's avatar

Thanks, I'll keep an eye out. As I'm sure will Dok.

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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

You’re welcome! I’ll flag her if I see her again!

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fawkedifiknow's avatar

Might have been appropriate - in the interest of honest journalism - to mention Joe Biden's complicity with the credit card bloodsucking industry to rewrite the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in the 990's for their benefit and to the detriment of consumers. Just sayin'.

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Stephen St John's avatar

Some people can find the bad in anything.

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fawkedifiknow's avatar

When talking about debt relief - which is what this post is about - the Bankruptcy Code and its radical revisions by Biden and Republicans in the 1990’s is hardly nitpicking. Joe was in the pockets of credit card companies; sorry if that hurts your feelings to mention it.

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Stephen St John's avatar

"sorry if that hurts your feelings" How condescending of you.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

Yeah ... old MBNA Joe had a hand in this back in the day.

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Stanta Knows's avatar

I was (am) under the impression that Cannon has torpedoed the case against Nauta and that other guy. At any rate Trump will likely pardon them so no trial will happen. So just release the report.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

That announcement should twist up Donnie's knickers. Even if MEHrick Garland never releases shit.

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President Rufus T. Superfly's avatar

Release both reports, you coward.

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

The explanation: two criminal cases pending (Nauta and De Oliveira) in the stolen documents situation prevent the DOJ from releasing Volume 2 to the public or to Congress (except the ranking members on the Judiciary Committee in each chamber will get to view Volume 2 in a secured way, and they are forbidden from speaking about the Volume 2 stuff in public because of those pending cases).

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Saviour of Bread's avatar

"intends to", but if he slow walks it for two weeks Trump will order him not to and he'll comply.

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Land Shark 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️'s avatar

But he also won't be AG for very long after the 20th, either. I'm sure Mr. Smith has snuck out copies of EVERYTHING to a safe place.

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