Kyra Taylor has been hospitalized numerous times for complications related to Type 1 diabetes.
Diagnosed with diabetes as a child, her familys medical insurance covered treatments that managed her condition.
As a young adult, she was without medical insurance and the bills mounted. Before long, she had tens of thousands of dollars in medical debt.
Even when she was in the intensive care unit of a hospital, her mother was taking cals from collection agencies wanting payment of past due balances.
I was drowning in debt, the Detroit resident said. I had to rub two pennies together to buy my meds.
Her wages from a minimum wage job prevented her from qualifying for assistance. She filed for bankruptcy.
Then she got a letter from RIP Medical …
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