Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Debt Buyers (HBO)

“Debt-buying is a grimy business and badly needs more oversight, because as it stands any idiot can get into it. And I can prove that to you because I am an idiot and we started a debt-buying company,” said Oliver. “And it was disturbingly easy.”
John Oliver has a “giveaway” at the end of this 20-minute video on debt collectors which news sources are saying is the largest one-time giveaway in television history  - $15 million in medical debt helping out 9,000 Americans. A giveaway that even surpasses Oprah's $8 milion value free-car giveaway to each of her 276 audience members (remember that one?)...

Companies that purchase debt cheaply then collect it aggressively are shockingly easy to start. We can prove it!

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Info source: theguardian