The nonprofit organization, Undue Medical Debt’s mission is purchasing medical debt and retiring it for the benefit of millions of Americans saddled with medical debt. The firm partners with hospitals, local governments, debt collectors and donors to buy medical debt for pennies on the dollar. In its latest endeavor, the organization has arranged with a large debt trader to buy $30 billion worth of debt for 20 million Americans
Category: Cost of Healthcare
Tuesday Links
- Amazon Health: “same day or next day appointments” and “appointments that start on time.”
- Why did Trump nix Biden’s rule covering anti-obesity drugs under Medicare?
- Some people don’t get hangovers.
- The income gap between Black and white Americans is entirely driven by differences in the men, not the women.
Monday Links
- Small nuclear reactors will supply the next wave of new energy production.
- More on Trump tariffs: “It looks like $5.4 trillion in wealth was destroyed by a math error by a low-level government official.”
- The positive case for torpedo bats. (Bloomberg)
- An inexpensive shingles vaccine appears to reduce the probability of dementia by 20%.
- Three states have adopted Medicaid expansion by constitutional amendment. (NYT)
- How Trump’s tariffs will affect the cost of a pencil.
Sunday Links
- Only one-third of Medicaid beneficiaries are actually poor. (WSJ)
- CBO projects that the national debt in 2054 would be 214 percent of GDP with the federal tax cuts permanently extended.
- The total income of the bottom fifth of income recipients is more than $65,000 if you count all government provided benefits. (WSJ)
- Myth: Poverty is the cause of child abuse.