Hello, VA Hospital System? Ensure EVERY day is a Veteran’s Day by Forgiving Unpaid and Unpayable Medical Debt!
You Can Do It. Let’s Talk!
For years now I have personally attempted to catch your attention to this need, and for years now I have yet to be successful. That’s going to change. I am going to enlist help.
Here’s why that help will be easy to secure for this project: a wrong needs to be righted. People with a service background are eager to right those wrongs. Millions of Americans who prize the military and their sacrifices are interested in righting wrongs.
Here’s a partial list of those wrongs — each of them with healthcare debt at their core:
1. Nonprofit and private hospitals are required to follow federal and state charity laws and write off the bad debt of the qualified poor.
2. Federal facilities instead must take “prompt and aggressive action” to settle all debts. Charity laws do not apply.
3. Once a debt is transferred to the U.S. Treasury for collection, VA hospitals are unlikely to interfere with their collection process.
4. Treasury can: (a) withhold wages; (b) attach tax refunds and 15% of a person’s social security income without a court order.
