Some hospitals sue patients over unpaid medical bills in bulk, sometimes by the hundreds of thousands. The defendants are often already facing financial hardship or even bankruptcy. Judgments against patients in these suits can derail someone’s life but, according to experts, they don’t bring hospitals much money. So why do hospitals do it? Host Dan Weissmann investigates this practice with The Baltimore Banner and Scripps News and speaks to patients who’ve found themselves on the receiving end of such lawsuits. Weissmann also speaks with Nick McLaughlin, an entrepreneur who’s making the business case for hospitals to stop trying to collect money from people who si
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