by Sylvia Moore | Jun 5, 2013 | News
Everyone knows having a bad credit score makes it harder to get approved for a car loan or a mortgage. But did you know bad credit could also keep you from getting a job? Even if what led to financial difficulty was thousands of dollars in medical debt? According to a...
by Sylvia Moore | Apr 24, 2012 | News
In a throwback to the Victorian era, hard economic times are creating a comeback for debtors’ prisons, despite the fact that they have been ruled unconstitutional. But legal loopholes allow collections agencies to aggressively go after people who owe money. The...
by Andrew McGuire | Nov 22, 2010 | 365, Celebrity Ads, News, Video
The last thing you want to face when you get sick is the prospect of going broke over medical bills. Yet medical debt is the major cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States, Even more surprising is that three-quarters of those people had health insurance when...
by Andrew McGuire | Oct 4, 2010 | News
I believe that if California does not vote for single payer, there will be many Californians that will die. This includes seniors, children and people of all ages who have very bad health problems. This is something everyone in California should want. Even my...
by Andrew McGuire | Sep 3, 2010 | News
Two years ago I had my gallbladder removed. Prior to the surgery, I spent an entire day in the emergency rooms, had two MRIs, two x-rays and two CAT scans. A slew of lab tests later, I’m tens of thousands of dollars in debt. And, I had health insurance from my...
