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When patients aren’t taken to court over medical debts

Marketplace All-in-One

Marketplace

News, Business

4.51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

At Rochester Regional Health in New York, aggressive collection activities on medical debts are barred. Patients are not sued, their wages are not garnished, and unpaid bills won’t sink their credit scores. We’ll hear about the health system’s shift to the uncommon model and learn more about its impact. But first, the Biden administration is announcing increased tariffs on imports from China. And later, how can the WNBA sustain its surging popularity?

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0:16.9

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0:24.0

My name is Lee Hawkins.

0:28.0

I've been a journalist for over 25 years. On my new podcast, What Happened in Alabama,

0:37.0

I get answers to some of the hardest questions about how things came to be for many black Americans and the truth that must come

0:45.3

before any reconciliation can happen. I investigate my family history, my upbringing

0:51.8

in Minnesota, and my father's painful nightmares about growing up in Alabama.

0:57.0

What happened in Alabama is a new series confronting the cycles of trauma for myself, my family, and for many black Americans.

1:06.0

Listen now. There's confirmation now that President Biden will impose higher tariffs on a range of

1:21.5

goods imported from China.

1:23.0

I'm David Brancaccio in New York.

1:25.0

The Higher China Tariffs

1:27.0

billed on Trump administration policy,

1:30.0

but the Biden people say their moves are more targeted,

1:32.0

Marketplace's Henry Epp reports. the Biden people say their moves are more targeted,

1:32.6

Marketplace's Henry Epp reports.

1:34.9

President Biden's planned tariffs are focused mostly on goods

1:37.9

that he hopes to produce more of in the US,

1:40.4

electric vehicles, batteries, solar cells, semiconductors, and the administration argues

1:45.4

China is undercutting those industries by flooding the global market with artificially

1:49.8

low-priced items.

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