Two years ago, the president of Credit Management Services, a collection agency in Grand Island, Nebraska, presented a struggling local family with the keys to a used 2007 Mercury Grand Marquis. To commemorate the donation, the company held a ceremony that concluded outside its offices, where the couple and their two young girls could try out their new car. The family’s story was dire: their eight-year-old daughter’s failing kidney had led to multiple surgeries and a deluge of medical bills, according to an article in the local newspaper. But CMS played another role in the family’s life, one the article didn’t mention.
Get Sick, Get Sued: Nebraska’s Poor Have Never Had It Worse
Paul Kiel, ProPublica, Salon: Movie
Sun, 05/01/2016 - 8:00am
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