Disgusting! Medical debt collectors decide warrants

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https://www.kcur.org/post/when-medical-debt-collectors-decide-who-gets-arrested-welcome-coffeyville-kansas#stream/0

the last Tuesday of July, Tres Biggs stepped into the courthouse in Coffeyville, Kansas, for medical debt collection day, a monthly ritual in this quiet city of 9,000, just over the Oklahoma border. He was one of 90 people who had been summoned, sued by the local hospital, or doctors, or an ambulance service over unpaid bills. Some wore eye patches and bandages; others limped to their seats by the wood-paneled walls. Biggs, who is 41, had to take a day off from work to be there. He knew from experience that if he didn’t show up, he could be put in jail.

Before the morning’s hearing, he listened as defendants traded stories. One woman recalled how, at four months pregnant, she had reported a money order scam to her local sheriff’s office only to discover that she had a warrant; she was arrested on the spot.

[BigmanPigman]

1. What is the health care situation in Kansas?

[xmas74]

2. No Medicaid expansion

The town mentioned has double the national poverty average.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Gee, will they wake up and vote in their own best interests in 2020?

[xmas74]

4. Maybe on national but

In many places county and municipal often have onever candidate so there are no options.

[BigmanPigman]

5. That sucks for them!!!

[xmas74]

6. My county in Missouri has this problem

The GOP runs everything and people have given up spending the money on a run.

[xmas74]

7. Kick for night crew nt