KPFK and YOU - Help wipe out One Million Dollars in Medical Debt!

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Time
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Venue
Live on KPFK, Los Angeles, CA

Join KPFK’s Cary Harrison Veteran’s day, Thurs, November 16 at 2 PM PT in a first-ever campaign as KPFK looks to abolish $1 Million dollars in Los Angeles medical debt in 1 hour!

Join KPFK’s Cary Harrison as we looks to abolish $1M dollars in Los Angeles Medical Debt. You’ve been helping KPFK so, it’s time for KPFK to help back! In this first-ever campaign, Cary has partnered with RIPMedicalDebt.org who will Supercharge our giving so, together, we can abolish medical debt across Los Angeles - right up to the Pacific Ocean! 
Plus, we’re going to expunge that negative credit mark and help them get their credit back.
  
Spread the word to join our radio broadcasts and live streams on KPFK 90.7-FM and KPFK.org!

Why is KPFK helping forgive Medical Debt? Because, as host Cary Harrison says, “It Is an existential threat to the well-being of Angelinos, our listeners, and society at large”.

We’re providing an unheard-of Bang-for-the-Buck return for the KPFK listener - YOU!
SO FAR WE'VE WIPED OUT OVER $350,000 in MEDICAL DEBT!!
PLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT HERE NOW

Why is KPFK helping forgive Medical Debt? Because, as host Cary Harrison says, “It Is an existential threat to the well-being of Angelinos, our listeners, and society at large”.

Cary has created an unheard-of Bang-for-the-Buck return for the KPFK listener - YOU! 

We’ve been partnered with RIP Medical Debt which has gotten us access to $1 million dollars in medical debt.  This is debt which we can completely forgive when we raise as little as $10,000.  Yes, when KPFK raises only ten thousand dollars, our partner will match our listeners’ donations by 100 times (yes, 100 times!) so we can abolish $1 million worth of medical debt across LA, touching so many families and removing their negative credit mark so they can get back to work and to a normal life!  

We’ve secured this debt because our partner, RIP, bought L.A. debt in bundles – so, $1 donated abolishes $100 of medical debt.

Since inception, our partner, RIP, has raised enough money to abolish over $5 billion of medical debt for over 2.8 million families (including $50 million in Veteran debt in 2018 alone). 

Cary Harrison’s at-a-glance Debt Facts:

  • ·  Debtors are the "collateral damage" of a flawed healthcare, pharma and Insurance system 
  • ·  43 million Americans now owe about $75 billion in past-due medical debt 
  • ·  More than 1 in 3 Americans struggle to afford the cost of their medical care 
  • ·  Medical debt contributes to more than 60 percent of all bankruptcies in the USA 
  • ·  75 percent of all individuals in medical bankruptcy had health insurance coverage 
  • ·  Medical debt lingers on a person’s credit report and negatively impacts their ability to purchase or rent a home, buy a vehicle, secure a loan, or even gain employment 

How will KPFK help our community? 

We’re serving our donors by abolishing the city’s crippling scourge of medical debt and fixing the credit marks against those with medical debt so our fellow Angelenos can get back on their feet and even back to work. 

Who Qualifies for Our Debt Forgiveness? 

  • ·  People earning less than 2 times the federal poverty level (varies by state and family size). 
  • ·  Those in financial hardship (out-of-pocket expenses 5% or more of their annual income). 
  • ·  People facing insolvency (debts are greater than assets). 

PLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT TO HELP WIPE OUT MEDICAL DEBT HERE NOW

 

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Live on KPFK
90.7 FM Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA

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