New Jersey canceling $100M in medical debt

The Hill ^ | 08/21/2024 | LAUREN IRWIN

[Political Junkie Too]

Article I Section 10

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

-PJ

[Fuzz]

Drunken mick?

That seems unnecessary.

And refusing to save a life unless payment is made first? Maybe the paramedics can look for a credit card to swipe on an unconscious accident victim before stabilizing them.

[oil_dude]

Taxpayers are gonna LOVE the extra tax burden, on top of the extra tax burden from the student loan forgiveness! Don’t ya just love politicians who think they have the right to give your money away, and then ask you to make it up with more taxes?

[liberalh8ter]

New Jersey is working with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, which said in a release it is working with the state to leverage more than $550,000 in American Rescue Plan federal funds.

Holy Moly what a sentence! Talk about muddying the waters….bottom line; a non-profit is getting paid with taxpayer funds to obtain settlements on unpaid medical bills using…..taxpayer funds. Ain't Socialism grand?

[mewzilla]

How much of this is going to Medicaid bills run up by illegals?

Inquiring minds really should be asking...

[rlmorel]

Yes. That smiling, gnomish little man knew exactly of what he spoke better than nearly everyone else.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile...

15 states sue Biden-Harris administration for enrolling noncitizens in Obamacare

[Ronald77]

I thought buying votes was illegal?

[shanover]

Murphy stockpiled Fedgov money from Covid and other “reinvestment” BS schemes and uses it for his own piggie bank and political slush fund. This “spontaneous” wiping away medical debt sounds great but the money was not meant for this.

[PIF]

New Jersey canceling adds $100M in medical debt costs.

[Thorium90]

Yup. Anyone who worked to pay their student loans off and sacrificed to the max to pay large hospital bills feels like a schmuck right now.

There will be plenty of resentment for this.

From now on no one will pay, the system will collapse, and say hello to single payer ‘health’ care.

[Organic Panic]

can’t ‘they’ just enslave doctors and force them to provide free car for all? Doctors are greedy and rich.

[Vermont Lt]

So I guess all those folks at NJ hospitals are working for free?

[pepsi_junkie]

The founders had a plan to prevent that: the election of Senators by their state legislatures. On the presumption that state legislators would act in the interests of their state and would put forth men of ability and character who would not be beholden to the whims of a popular vote.

Yeah, we ruined that a century back. And here we are.

[pepsi_junkie]

How does it get paid for? Easy!

[Macoozie]

So Government is “forgiving” Medical Debt to private providers? (isn’t that just plain old “theft” of services?)

Why not forgive public Tax Debts owed to Public Government Thieves?

Or all debts to all people?

Or all criminal charges (a Public Debt) for all criminals?

[jmacusa]

They sure aren’t going to get it from the illegals who crowd up my hospitals ERE night and day.

[Vaduz]

Debts do not get canceled they get passed onto the tax payer lie cover stories ensue.

[ViLaLuz]

Fire up the printing presses!

[TheBattman]

Interesting “common core” math there - “leverage $550,000 of American Rescue Plan” funding... against $100,000.000 in debt?

Seriously - there is no such thing as “cancelling” these debts. It just means someone else will bear that burden.