Strike Debt has just abolished medical debt for a thousand people!

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Tomorrow Rolling Jubilee will announce massive ER med debt abolished.


StrikeDebt ‏@StrikeDebt

At trip to the ER can cost as much as a semester in college. Tomorrow #RollingJubilee will announce massive ER med debt abolished. Pls RT


StrikeDebt ‏@StrikeDebt

Time to pull the plug on forprofit insurance #SinglePayer would save 400B dollars over Obamacare. Deficit reduction begins with #SinglePayer


StrikeDebt ‏@StrikeDebt

Dear for-profit insurance industry: we're sorry, we just can't afford your 400B gov handout this year. We're sick of you #SinglePayerNOW

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StrikeDebt ‏@StrikeDebt

Read and forward our email update about the #RollingJubilee's latest $1 MILLION debt buy: http://ow.ly/iVPrq

http://occupystudentdebtcampaign.createsend5.com/t/ViewEmail/j/BF3E10654DD82C66/DF7D61674E432EC9C67FD2F38AC4859C

The Jubilee is Rolling - $1 MILLION in debt abolished for over a thousand people. Last year we launched the Rolling Jubilee, a campaign that buys debt for pennies on the dollar and abolishes it. We originally set out to raise $50,000 to buy $1,000,000 in debt. To date, we’ve raised over ten times that amount, enough to eventually purchase eleven million dollars of debt!

After a great deal of research and diligence, we are thrilled to announce that we have completed our second purchase of medical debt. This time, we bought just over $1 million in debt from emergency rooms in Kentucky and Indiana. We will be abolishing the debt of over 1,000 people, with an average of around $900 per person.

This will be the first in a series of purchases of medical debt - each of our debt purchases is thoroughly documented (and mapped!) on our new documentation website.

Week of demonstrations - March 16th to March 23rd. Thousands of people will mark this event with a week of actions, in NYC and several other cities across the nation: protesting hospital closures and for-profit insurance corporations, and demonstrating a world where healthcare is not a line item on a corporate balance sheet. See our announcement for more information, and to find (or start!) an action near you.

(More at the link!)