[ChicagoConservative27]

I'm guessing you didn't explain who was paying for this? Murphy is a Jag bag. 🙄

[CatOwner]

Anyone who thought this was stopping with the education loans hasn’t been paying attention.

[MortMan]

...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.

That's a LOT of leverage!

[PGR88]

Our “leaders” are increasingly discovering the short-term political advantages of currency debasement and government debt spending, all created and sustained by our printed, fiat, centrally-controlled monetary system.

We are truly in the “bread and circuses” phase of imperial decline.

[Alas Babylon!]

Someone either has to pay (I’ll assume the state’s taxpayers) or the hospitals will just have to eat the debt, which they’ll just pass on in higher costs and fees to the rest of us.

So bottom line—we—us working people—have to pay.

[econjack]

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

Very true, but in a bad way. Don't you think stealing $100m from hospitals will affect the ability of those hospitals to provide medical care? If not, I've got a real good deal for you on a bridge.

[Steve_Seattle]

Unless he is saying that medical professionals won’t get paid for the work they’ve done, he must mean that the debt hasn’t been cancelled but has been shifted to someone else.

[Sequoyah101]

Strong motivation for nobody to pay their bills. Brilliant.

[rlmorel]

As Milton Friedman famously stated: "All debts get paid." In reading the article, it said $100 million in debt, but the article said: "...it is working with the state to leverage more than $550,000 in American Rescue Plan federal funds..."

So...exactly.

We know now who is paying for $550,000 of people's debt. We who pay federal taxes are all going to pay that.

Gee. Who is going to cover the other $99,450,000 dollars worth of debt?

[Steve_Seattle]

$100 million divided by 50,000 is only 2,000 per person. That does not seem like an insurmountable, unpayable amount, but something that most people could easily pay off in less than two years. I’m not wealthy, and I could pay it off in four months and barely even notice it.

[Varsity Flight]

The O Body”Care” O-Affordable Care Act in action.

Right out from the Shake Down Man, Imposter, who spoke at 11:00 PM DNC, in your face convention.

Cancelling the affordable bills. How’s that.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Stupid Drunken Mick politician trying to pull some of Bidenskyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy’s commie voter BS of forcing others to pay other people’s bills. Politicians should not be allowed to pull this BS. Doctors and hospitals need to start refusing service until they are paid first. Nobody I know works for free. The days of slavery are over except for the jerks remaining on the RAT plantation.

[Angelino97]

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.”

― Alexander Fraser Tytler

[Mark]

Beginning after the election- just in time to cancel everything.

[mware]

There goes my insurance rates.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

So they are taking money stolen from taxpayers and giving it to those with medical debt.

This says two things.

First the medical system is broken.

Second it’s so bad we have to steal from people who had their own dreams for that money.

[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

[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...

[PIF]

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