Remarkably, given the subject matter which debates the value of medical debt forgiveness, this article in Current Affairs by Dr. Luke Messac, an attending emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and author of Your Money or Your Life, is as fair and well-balanced as could be hoped. …

Trinity Moravian Church burns forgiven medical bills I find it amazing — and deeply gratifying — each and every time a person or organization becomes aware of, and then puts to work for their community the charity (RIP Medical Debt) I helped bring into existence. The Trinity Moravian Church in…

Larry donated his own safety and future to salvage lives by flying extremely dangerous covert missions over occupied France during WWII. Decades later on this Memorial Day, that spirit is still there and making that caring difference. Years back when I was first struggling in my fundraising role to get…

It’s a Wonderful Life and Veteran Suicide — We Need More Clarence’s It’s that terrible/joyful holiday period when we push aside our pains and disappointments to join with the joy of the season and imagine a coming year full of wonders and possibilities. Of those pains here in America, none…

Pictured: Col (ret) US Army Mikel Burroughs, Jerry Ashton, Navy vet along with his RIP Medical Debt co-founder Craig Antico — NYC Veterans Day Parade 2017 Most of us have seen the distressing headlines about our veterans: their rate of suicide, homelessness, drug abuse, incarceration rate, debt and more. Some…

To the sorrow of — but applause from — fellow competitors in a $20 million VA campaign to search out viable solutions to reduce veteran suicide, the first phase is complete and forty contestants out of 1,371 entrants have been chosen to compete for the brass (make that golden) ring. …

Throwing the Dice for $20 million to Reduce Veteran Suicides — A Major VA Gamble What do you do when you exhaust your tools and approaches to what has become an intractable problem, and find yourself at an impasse? If you are the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs, which has…

Cary Harrison, the highly regarded social commentator for public radio station KPFK-fm in Los Angeles, returned this summer to his boarding school roots — Institut Montana Zugerberg — to introduce a fresh crop of students into the mystery and magic of … radio? Well, somewhat. This is not a terrestrial…

In an act of desperation or a brilliant tactical stroke — or both — the Veterans Administration this spring launched a campaign called Mission Daybreak. Its purpose: to publicly reach out to locate innovators who can come up with suicide prevention solutions that can carve away at the average of…