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New Jersey canceling $100M in medical debt
The Hill ^ | 08/21/2024 | LAUREN IRWIN

Posted on 08/21/2024 10:54:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced Wednesday the state would cancel $100 million in medical debt for nearly 50,000 residents.

“Medical debt can follow someone for decades. We are wiping the slate clean for thousands and making a real impact on their lives,” Murphy posted on the social platform X.

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.

Nearly 18,000 New Jersey residents owned $61.6 million to Prime Healthcare hospitals, and more than 31,000 people owed more than $38.4 million to other providers like collections agencies, according to the nonprofit.

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To: ChicagoConservative27
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
21 posted on 08/21/2024 11:36:49 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: FlingWingFlyer

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.


22 posted on 08/21/2024 11:37:11 AM PDT by Fuzz
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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?


23 posted on 08/21/2024 11:44:55 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: ChicagoConservative27
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?

24 posted on 08/21/2024 11:45:27 AM PDT by liberalh8ter ( Ephesians 6:10 - 18)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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

Inquiring minds really should be asking...


25 posted on 08/21/2024 11:47:34 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: PGR88

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


26 posted on 08/21/2024 11:48:30 AM PDT by rlmorel (J.D. Vance and The Legend of The MaMaw of The 19 Loaded Guns!)
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To: mewzilla
Meanwhile...

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

27 posted on 08/21/2024 11:54:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: CatOwner

I thought buying votes was illegal?


28 posted on 08/21/2024 11:56:09 AM PDT by Ronald77
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To: MortMan

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.


29 posted on 08/21/2024 12:01:40 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
New Jersey canceling adds $100M in medical debt costs.
30 posted on 08/21/2024 12:04:11 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Sequoyah101

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.


31 posted on 08/21/2024 12:06:13 PM PDT by Thorium90
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


32 posted on 08/21/2024 12:14:26 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


33 posted on 08/21/2024 12:27:33 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Angelino97
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.

34 posted on 08/21/2024 12:44:56 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
How does it get paid for? Easy!


35 posted on 08/21/2024 12:48:48 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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?


36 posted on 08/21/2024 12:57:06 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

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


37 posted on 08/21/2024 1:02:59 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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


38 posted on 08/21/2024 1:07:39 PM PDT by Vaduz
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To: rlmorel

Fire up the printing presses!


39 posted on 08/21/2024 1:09:41 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


40 posted on 08/21/2024 1:16:42 PM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists-Satanists: redundant labels.)
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