Paran yok mu? Tutsağı olabilir… No money for Medical Bills? You could be jailed…

[meowdate]

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“ -Ne olacak şimdi peki? ”

Nazlı, Yunanistan’a uygun visa’le olmadan için tutsağı oldu, ama aynı şey bir ABD vatandaşı başına gelebilir…

 

“ -Well, now what’s going to happen? ”

Nazlı is behind bars for arriving in Greece without the proper paperwork, but the same thing can happen to a US citizen in many states for also not having the proper paperwork: debt caused by lack of healthcare, for instance. In both cases, putting a person who has not been convicted of a crime behind bars can result from simply not having enough money to pay medical bills, leading to a worsening spiral of debt which affects us all. The simplest solutions would be to halt the practice of Body Attachment, in the short-term, and enact a Single Payer System of Universal Healthcare in the longer term. The first requires action on a state-by-state basis, at least at the moment. Both short-term and long-term approaches are needed, immediately.
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20 April, 12018 HE

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Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

In theory, it is illegal in America to imprison someone just for not having money, due to laws against debt prisons. In practice, it happens all the time. Laws are for little people.

Re: Well ...

[meowdate]

...which is why we should all be calling our legislators to enforce those laws, or change them, as in the case of the MD's Body Attachment laws, and getting help from the ACLU and other pro-bono legal aid bodies to fight for the little people, as in Baltimore: https://psmag.com/news/baltimore-tenants-against-kushner-owned-property-firm.