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When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested
Kenwardjr Retweeted"Welcome to Coffeyville, Kansas, where the judge has no law degree, debt collectors get a cut of the bail, and Americans are watching their lives and liberty disappear in the pursuit of medical debt collection."
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When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Oct 2019
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SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)1. Here's hoping lawyer Hassenplug
gets a good, hard taste of karma. And soon.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)2. Obscene and barbaric.
Mersky
(4,969 posts)3. Is outrageous this is occurring in 21st century America.
The attitude of the collections attorney is chilling. He feeds upon the downtrodden without guilt and enjoys the quiet of his economically depressed town. Hes in such an ugly bubble of his own making that to call someone a Hassenplug (his name) could be an epithet rivaling any of those lobbed at tRump.
On edit: I had to revisit the must read article and was compelled to comment further on how astoundingly awful a hassenplug can be.
area51
(11,868 posts)4. One of the reasons why we need