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Every dollar you donate can abolish close to $100 in medical debt!
Join St. Michael’s Episcopal Church this Lenten season as we relieve the burden of medical debt on the shoulders of our Cajun neighbors.
According to the US Judiciary Data and Analysis Office, Louisiana has one of the highest bankruptcy rates in the country.
Louisiana is like no other state, and no one born outside it can ever fully understand its mix of French, Southern, Creole, Cajun, Spanish, Haitian, and American culture. That might be why Louisianans have such a sense of community pride and neighborly love, seen everywhere from Mardis Gras to crawfish boils. We often come together to take care of someone who gets sick, but when one hospital trip can cost tens of thousands of dollars, the community can only do so much. The strongest communities can be devastated by the medical debt crisis. Medical debt drains money from local towns to out-of-state debt collectors, and families go bankrupt trying to pay for their loved one’s medical bills.
More than 60% of all bankruptcies in the U.S. are directly related to medical debt. These debts are not the result of poor choices. Who qualifies to have their medical debt forgiven?
Just the fact that an individual owes medical debt, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, decreases the likelihood that they will seek health care treatment.
RIP Medical Debt utilizes campaign contributions to purchase bundled medical debt portfolios on the secondary debt market, and then abolishes that debt for pennies on the dollar. On average, $1 is leveraged to abolish $100 in medical debt, and every donation through this page will be spent directly on abolishing medical debt in Louisiana. This Lenten season, St. Michael’s will match up to $10,000 for medical debt relief. If we raise $10,000, then that means we could abolish $2,000,000 of medical debt for our Cajun Neighbors!
Shine the light of Christ this Lenten season. Pass on the blessings God has blessed you with and lift the yoke of medical debt off your neighbors’ shoulders!
According to the US Judiciary Data and Analysis Office, Louisiana has one of the highest bankruptcy rates in the country.
Louisiana is like no other state, and no one born outside it can ever fully understand its mix of French, Southern, Creole, Cajun, Spanish, Haitian, and American culture. That might be why Louisianans have such a sense of community pride and neighborly love, seen everywhere from Mardis Gras to crawfish boils. We often come together to take care of someone who gets sick, but when one hospital trip can cost tens of thousands of dollars, the community can only do so much. The strongest communities can be devastated by the medical debt crisis. Medical debt drains money from local towns to out-of-state debt collectors, and families go bankrupt trying to pay for their loved one’s medical bills.
More than 60% of all bankruptcies in the U.S. are directly related to medical debt. These debts are not the result of poor choices. Who qualifies to have their medical debt forgiven?
- Earn less than 2x the federal poverty level (varies by state, family size).
- Debts are 5 percent or more of annual income.
Just the fact that an individual owes medical debt, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association, decreases the likelihood that they will seek health care treatment.
RIP Medical Debt utilizes campaign contributions to purchase bundled medical debt portfolios on the secondary debt market, and then abolishes that debt for pennies on the dollar. On average, $1 is leveraged to abolish $100 in medical debt, and every donation through this page will be spent directly on abolishing medical debt in Louisiana. This Lenten season, St. Michael’s will match up to $10,000 for medical debt relief. If we raise $10,000, then that means we could abolish $2,000,000 of medical debt for our Cajun Neighbors!
Shine the light of Christ this Lenten season. Pass on the blessings God has blessed you with and lift the yoke of medical debt off your neighbors’ shoulders!