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		daemin on March 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Chinese Companies Are Buying Up Cash-Strapped U.S.... Yeah, I think it was an episode of The Daily Show where they bought a whole tranche of medical debt and forgave it.

lightbyte on March 21, 2018 [–]

It was an episode of Last Week Tonight a few years ago. They noted that you can not buy individual debt, just large blocks of it. So HBO let them buy a large block of it and they told everyone they wouldn't be collecting.

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