Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in OSV News speaking on the costs of medical care and the cycle of debt. Read an excerpt below, or the full article here. 

‘This is a miracle to them’: How the church is helping to erase medical debt

By: Kimberley Heatherington

"Eric LeCompte — executive director of the Jubilee USA Network, a coalition of religious, development and advocacy groups that has secured more than $130 billion in debt relief for the world’s poorest economies — agreed.

“Knowing so many families who have struggled with being able to afford medical care, the No. 1 piece of advice that hospitals and pharmaceuticals and others are giving to people is, go start a GoFundMe in order to pay for your medical bills. I think that’s absolutely tragic — and in many ways, is actually sinful,” he said."

 

Read more here.