Le 2016 Man

Where were you when John Oliver single-handedly solved the debt crisis?

he didn't really spend $15 million

Did he show 1 minute later when the medical debt went right back up?

lets all buy debt and not collect it

what is his plan here?

ratings

is that 15m worth the ratings though? how much more of an audience will that bring in?

John Oliver's plan goes something like this:
>debt
>2016
>pick one

shshshsshhhh shush you lot!

Let the libshills bankrupt themselves like this!

This is perfect! The Cost Of Virtue Signalling, up front, and in full.

Let's hope it spreads to his half dozen viewers, and they wreck themselves too.

Medical debt

ITS 2015

It cost him only $60k.

I don't understand.

i know that hospitals will only actually charge you about 5% or so of the bill, but thats ridiculous to go from 15 million to 60k. are you pulling my leg

Two observations;

One - this is exactly what we want. For ONCE a liberal takes his own money and uses it for a cause he sees fit. Even if we think it's stupid, it's his right to spend it as he sees fit.

Two - 15 million debt only releases 9 000 people?

Is there a debt crisis?
How is paying the debt solving the problem?

>his own money

i doubt that

this. these debt collection companies buy your debt for pennies so the creditors can claim a loss. current year man bought some of that debt from the collectors worth nothing compared to the actual amount owed.

He bought old defaulted debt collection info on the cheap of debts that could potentially (but not at all likely) be collected on for a total of almost $15 mil.

In Murica 15 milllion in medical debt is like 4 cancer patients?

It's debt. After awhile, most of it is late fees and interest and etc. Debt collectors can buy this debt for cents on the dollar, then they make tons of profit when/if they settle with a debtor somewhere in the middle. Meanwhile the hospital writes it off, gets tax breaks, the debtor settles the debt for much, much less than the original debt, and everyone involved wins. Except for the taxpayer.

Here, he just buys the $15million debt for $60k, and instead of collecting $100k+ from debtors to settle that debt, he just forgave it. Took a $60k hit himself to 'save' people $15million.

Making people pay their debts in 2016 is racist.

>Two - 15 million debt only releases 9 000 people?
I don't see the significance, Puma. That's less than $2000 per person and as stated here much of it is late fees and interest

He didn't even help anyone by doing this. All that debt was most likely already written off as uncollectable. So he's basically just wasting money, which makes sense since he's a Britcuck.