Allison Sesso, President and CEO of RIP Medical Debt, talks about the activities of her organization, funded by crowd funding, individual contributions, church donations, and now money from the American Rescue Plan, to erase medical debt from low-income individuals (at 400% of the poverty level or below). The systemic failure of healthcare in the U. S. puts a tremendous burden of medical care on the poor, and RIP Medical Debt can erase that debt at a price of $1 for every $100 of medical debt, and have already erased more than $9 billion of medical debt in the country.
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