Taken for a Ride: How Ambulance Debt Afflicts the Extreme Poor

I was in total shock, strapped to a gurney in the back of an ambulance. I had been repeatedly abducted, beaten, and sexually assaulted by a transient man over a period of a year. Completely defenseless and traumatized, I was later groped by a series of predatory homeless men. Defeated, my extreme circumstanceselicited an extreme response: I began lying naked on a patch of grass near a busy street in Salt Lake City.
Read more: https://prospect.org/article/taken-ride-how-ambulance-debt-afflicts-extreme-poor?source=Snapzu