Two former debt collectors are on a mission...to pay off people’s medical debt

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NEW YORK —"Hospital stays, doctor visits, procedures, tests. It all adds up, and not even insurance can protect some from falling into debt.

Craig Antico and Jerry Ashton want to help. They’re former medical debt collectors with years of experience. Now, instead of hounding people to pay up, they’re absolving complete strangers of their bills through the non-profit they recently launched called RIP Medical Debt.

“We go to the hospital, and offer them a penny on the dollar for any of their accounts that are under two times the poverty level, or the people who are spending 5 percent of their income, or more, on their medical bills,” explained Antico, the non-profit’s CEO.

“We take it off their hands. But instead of going to a collection agency, instead of creating a series of phone calls, it’s gone,” added Ashton, RIP Medical Debt’s Executive Vice President..."

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