One of the bookmarks I check every day when I am looking for content to publish on AccountsRecovery.net is “medical debt.” It’s obviously a hot-button issue with new laws and regulations aimed at curbing the amount of medical debt consumers are burdened with or other attempts to protect consumers from the high cost of visiting a doctor or a hospital. For the past few days, though, that alert has been dominated with the story of Casey McIntrye, a 38-year-old woman who died of ovarian cancer last week. Media outlets across the country are picking up the story of how McIntyre asked for donations to help pay off the medical debts of others. As of yesterday, the campaign had raised $220,000 with RIP Medical Debt, which will allow the organization to purchase and forgive about $19 million of consumers’ medical debts.
This is the first time that someone has posthumously planned a campaign with RIP Medical Debt, the organization said in a published report. The nature of the campaign has made it one of the fastest-raising campaigns in organization history, a spokesman for RIP Medical Debt said.
McIntyre was inspired to launch the campaign because there are many across the country who do not have access to the same great healthcare that she did, she wrote in a post that was published on her social media accounts after she died. McIntyre almost died earlier this year, and was moved to hospice care in May after being told she only had a few weeks to live. She lived for another six months, which allowed her to plan many of the details of her passing, her husband said.
McIntyre leaves behind her husband and an 18-month-old daughter.
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