"This is an important step toward moving the company back into a normal cycle of reporting and payment," said Jack Bovender, HCA's chief executive.
Given the billing cycle of the operator, payments can be extended 45 days to a couple months.
She went to a local moneylender, and was soon caught in a cycle of rocketing interest payments.
What's more, the city doesn't offer a community service option for arrestees, which means that poor people slapped with trumped-up or outright false charges often get stuck in a vicious cycle of missing court payments and ending back in jail.
The forgotten lesson of that calamity is the need to reduce hoarding of money by the rich, and to put that cash into investments, in order to trigger new hiring, reduce unemployment and begin a virtuous cycle of new jobs, less unemployment payments and more tax revenues from working people.
New kinds of payment plans?
Third screen: Choose method of payment.
The form of payment varies, too.
Others are testing new types of payment.
"We offer a menu of payment options.
