Publisher's Corner
When Your Charity or Veterans Group Gets Bad Press - Maintaining Integrity Through Adversity
It’s painful to see bad press.
Having recently gone through such an experience, I realized that somewhere along the way, almost every organization...
Guest Viewpoint
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Zero Suicide - Meet the Staten Island Military, Veteran, Family (SMVF) Task Force!
The Staten Island Service Member/Veteran and Families (SMVF) Taskforce mission is to bring the civilian and military communities to create solutions to various challenges for the military community. One such challenge is to bring awareness about t...
The Healthcare Maze #8 - Veterans Medical Debt
We continue our discussion of medical debt in the U.S. This episode focuses on veterans medical debt. We are pleased to have Jerry Ashton as a guest on the podcast. Jerry Ashton is a four-decade executive in the credit and collections industry. In 2011 he was inspired by his experience with the Occupy Wall Street movement . In 2014 he co-founded RIP Medical Debt, a 501(C)(3) charity dedicated to buying and abolishing unpaid and unpayable medical debt. In 2021 he established a public benefit corporation called “Let’s Rethink This” (www.LetsRethinkThis.com) . At present he is now focused on relieving our veterans of unpaid VA medical debt in a campaign called End Vet Med Debt (#EndVetMedDebt).
Originally published at Buzz Sprout
