Rethinking Heroes National Medical Debt Relief Campaign
By Veterans and on Behalf of Veterans
To donate to this campaign by mail, please send a check:
Payable To:
RIP Medical Debt
Address:
RIP Medical Debt
28-07 Jackson Ave, 5th Fl
Long Island City, NY 11101
Memo Line:
Rethinking Heroes — 44653


Rethinking Heroes is a first-ever national public radio program addressing, among other social and financial challenges, a suicide rate veterans experience that is twice that of fellow Americans and an estimated $6B in medical debt burden currently owed by them through the VA hospital system.
As a co-founder of RIP Medical Debt and a Navy veteran, I designed Rethinking Heroes as an “Impact Awareness” tool to focus on righting the wrongs that veterans needlessly suffer.
My colleague and Director of Broadcasting at Let’s Rethink This, Cary Harrison, is the host of Rethinking Heroes, and streams this program across the U.S. every Friday at 9 am PST and noon EDT where he interviews people who are vets and veteran advocates providing impactful, real-world solutions.
As a special public service, on the last Friday show of each month, on behalf of veterans and as part of a national campaign called Veteran Mission Possible (VMP), Cary abolishes $1M in unpaid medical debt owed by their fellow Americans. Veterans: having served; still serving.
All donations made directly through this page support the spirit of our work and are counted separately (not as part of the monthly Rethinking Heroes donation) and tax-deductible individually to donors.
-Co-Founder of RIP Medical Debt and Let’s Rethink This Founder Jerry Ashton

Please note that while this campaign is on behalf of veterans, it is not specifically targeting the medical debt of veterans.
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To donate to this campaign by mail, please send a check:
Payable To:
RIP Medical Debt
Address:
RIP Medical Debt
28-07 Jackson Ave, 5th Fl
Long Island City, NY 11101
Memo Line:
Rethinking Heroes — 44653
- Recent Donations
- Jerry A. just donated $100
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How RIP Works
Over a hundred million Americans, one in three, struggles with the weight of medical debt.
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You make a donation
We use data analytics to pinpoint the debt of those most in need: households that earn less than 4x the federal poverty level (varies by state, family size) or whose debts are 5% or more of annual income.
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RIP buys medical debt at a steep discount
We buy debt in bundles, millions of dollars at a time at a fraction of the original cost. This means your donation relieves about 100x its value in medical debt.
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Together we wipe out medical debt
People across the country receive letters that their debt has been erased. They have no tax consequences or penalties to consider. Just like that, they’re free of medical debt.
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