11/26/2025
If you like sarcasm, bad jokes, and questionable life decisions, you’re in the right place. 🙃💸
So apparently Mary Rutan Hospital has entered its Collections Era, because since the start of 2024 they’ve filed 1,200 lawsuits last year and 1,600 already this year against patients. And if that wasn’t wild enough, judges have signed hundreds of wage-garnishment orders — including 30 this month alone.
One patient, Kim McClure, got slapped with a 25% garnishment order. Twenty-five. Percent. One week she’s working nonstop, the next she’s sick and has zero. But sure, let’s take a quarter of her money no matter what — because the system makes so much sense. 🙄
And honestly? I feel this one in my soul.
I’ve been garnished for medical debt.
And let me tell you: if I could’ve paid it, I would’ve. Nobody chooses between rent, food, and medical bills because they’re trying to be rebellious. We choose it because we don’t want to be homeless and starve.
Shelter and groceries suddenly become “luxuries,” because apparently Mom’s gotta pay up for that last hospital visit first. Like sorry kids — dinner will have to wait because the ER bill from six months ago says it’s hungry too.
Here’s the part lawmakers need to hear:
➡️ Medical debt is not moral failure.
➡️ People don’t choose illness.
➡️ Wage garnishment for healthcare should NOT exist.
The law needs to change so hospitals can’t take a quarter of someone’s paycheck and leave families scrambling. Cap garnishments at a humane level. Require income-based payment plans. Mandate hardship waivers. SOMETHING other than “pay up or good luck surviving.”
Because no one should lose their home, their lights, or their sanity just because they got sick in America — a country with billion-dollar healthcare companies and a population drowning in medical debt.
But sure… let’s sue the patients. That’ll fix everything. 🙃
https://abc6onyourside.com/on-your-side/6-on-your-side/ohio-law-house-bill-257-medical-debt-collection-mary-rutan-hospital-sues-thousands-of-patients-lawsuits-bankruptcy-lawmakers-healthcare