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I think its fair to say medical debt is a crisis in this country right now. two out of every three bankruptcies in the u.s. right now are tied to medical issues and the debt from hospital stays, doctors visit, et cetera, according to a study published this year in the american journal of public health. >> a debt can sometimes be crushing, sometimes hospitals end up going after patient was dont pay, by hounding them with collection calls, senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen visited a hos...

Life. dont give your whole social security number. >> gretchen: lets get an e-mail to help a viewer. jason said, im getting collection calls for an outstanding medical bill, but its not mine. they wanted my social security number to prove it, but i didnt give it to them. do you think ive been the victim of identity fraud? what do you think? >> no, i dont think so in this case. i think what youre getting is you just got somebody that is one of these debt buyers. they bought a very old debt and th...

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We are talking specifically about j.p. morgan chase. the bank reportedly foreclosed on 14 military families while their loved ones were overseas and then overcharged thousands more. marine captain jonathan rolls and his wife julie are among those families. they say they were hit with threatening collection calls even though they say they did everything they were supposed to do. i actually had a chance to talk to julie and her lawyer last month and his is what they told me. >> we didnt sleep for ...

Alone with him being in flight school, deployed, being away from the home is bad enough when you have two small children. combined with the fact you would get collection calls of which on monies you did not owe. it was -- it was my nightmare. it still is, because it still has not been resolved. >> captain rowles, you have made a significant commitment to serve america, to serve your country. what would you consider to be the base expectation in return from your country? >>. >> well, from my coun...

Justice against a banking system that is peddling fraud and preying upon people at every turn? >> well, dylan, thank you for having us on today. the scra is designed to protect service members like jonathan, when they were in the trenches and fighting for our freedoms. protect them from foreclosures, protect them from collection calls, protect them from repossessions of automobiles, protect them from the financial predatory practices that apparently chase has acknowledged that they did in this c...

Week, dealing with their customer service, their collections representatives, explaining what sca meant and our protections that were granted in 2006. finally in april of 2010, we sought legal counsel. >> so, bill, i mean, as you read through all of the details here, i mean, it looks like jpmorgan chase may have violated a military statute here. >> the protections we are talking about about are designed to relief our active duty, our fighting forces, men and women of the stresses of collection c...