When Good Georgians Get Together, Great Things Happen
To donate to this campaign by mail, please send a check:
Payable To:
RIP Medical Debt
Address:
RIP Medical Debt
28-07 Jackson Ave, 5th Fl
Long Island City, NY 11101
Memo Line:
How I'd Fix Atlanta — 46160
When How I’d Fix Atlanta was created in 2022, the hope was to get people talking about ambitious ways we could make our city better. In the time since, we’ve published 17 essays (and counting!) published a print zine, and started bringing HIFA live events to stages around ATL.
With this campaign, we’re hoping you’ll help us change the lives of some of our neighbors.
RIP Medical Debt uses your donations to purchase bundled medical debt portfolios from hospitals and on the secondary debt market and then forgives that debt.
Debt relief recipients will receive an envelope in the mail from RIP letting them know that their debt has been bought by a third party and erased with no strings attached. They’ll owe nothing and face no tax penalty. It’s just gone.
On average, $1 is leveraged to abolish $100 in medical debt, and every donation through this page will be used to directly abolish medical debt in Georgia. We’ll start with the $340,000 in debt that’s currently scattered across a dozen metro-area counties. Once we’ve cleared that, we’ll expand our focus to the $4M of statewide debt in Georgia.
Our initial goal is $10,000 (which would translate to $1,000,000 in debt), but we know we can do way more than that. Please tell everyone you know and contribute whatever you can. Thanks! And remember: when good Georgians get together, great things happen.
Campaign Support Recipients
To donate to this campaign by mail, please send a check:
Payable To:
RIP Medical Debt
Address:
RIP Medical Debt
28-07 Jackson Ave, 5th Fl
Long Island City, NY 11101
Memo Line:
How I'd Fix Atlanta — 46160
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How RIP Works
Over a hundred million Americans, one in three, struggles with the weight of medical debt.
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You make a donation
We use data analytics to pinpoint the debt of those most in need: households that earn less than 4x the federal poverty level (varies by state, family size) or whose debts are 5% or more of annual income.
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RIP buys medical debt at a steep discount
We buy debt in bundles, millions of dollars at a time at a fraction of the original cost. This means your donation relieves about 100x its value in medical debt.
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Together we wipe out medical debt
People across the country receive letters that their debt has been erased. They have no tax consequences or penalties to consider. Just like that, they’re free of medical debt.
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