USA: Die Rückkehr des Schuldenturmes

verfasst von Sorrento, 08.01.2004, 09:21

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Are Debtor Prisons Returning To America?

Hospitals hound uninsured patients for bill payments and now rank among America's most aggressive debt-collectors using one of the harshest and least-known collections tactics of all: seeking the arrest of no-show debtors.

We speak with Jim Bean who was jailed in Illinois in part because he failed to pay a hospital bill and we hear from the CFO of the hospital that sought his arrest as well as a member of a grass roots citizen action organization in Illinois.
Hospitals hound uninsured patients for medical bill payment using collection agencies and lawyers who use such methods as filing lawsuits, slapping liens on homes, seizing bank accounts, and garnishing wages to extract payment.

Some hospitals now rank among America's most aggressive debt-collectors. Some also use one of the harshest and least-known collections tactics of all: seeking the arrest of no-show debtors.

Hospitals in several states have secured the arrest and even jailing of patients who miss court hearings on their debts. This legal tactic is chillingly known in some areas as"Body Attachment."

Jim Bean, Urbana Illinois based musician who was jailed for several hours in November 2001 in part because he failed to pay a hospital bill. Claudia Lennhoff, executive director of Champaign County Health Care in Illinois Consumers Robert Tonkinson, chief financial officer for Carle Foundation Hospital, the primary teaching hospital of the University of Illinois


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