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mahatmakanejeeves

(56,888 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2019, 04:40 PM Oct 2019

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."

@lizziepresser w/ the scoop:


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When Medical Debt Collectors Decide Who Gets Arrested (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2019 OP
Here's hoping lawyer Hassenplug SoCalNative Oct 2019 #1
Obscene and barbaric. dalton99a Oct 2019 #2
Is outrageous this is occurring in 21st century America. Mersky Oct 2019 #3
One of the reasons why we need area51 Oct 2019 #4

Mersky

(4,969 posts)
3. Is outrageous this is occurring in 21st century America.
Thu Oct 17, 2019, 12:46 PM
Oct 2019

The attitude of the collections attorney is chilling. He feeds upon the downtrodden without guilt and enjoys the quiet of his economically depressed town. He’s 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.

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