Insured Americans will have to pay more to hospitals and doctors to make up for your nonpayment.

WSJ: Crunch Time

Strictly speaking, a pure factoring arrangement has the supplier of funds acquiring the receivables, along with all the risks of nonpayment or late payment.

FORBES: Magazine Article

By extending credit and taking on all the risk of nonpayment if they lose, the argument goes, lawyers align their interests perfectly with their clients.

FORBES: Contingency Fees, Self-Regulation Make Lawyering Expensive For Us

By law, insurers in most states must cancel coverage for nonpayment.

FORBES: Insurance Rates Jump For Drivers With Policy Lapse

Lifting the embargo would allow Cuba access to lending organizations such as the World Bank, which should be wary of Castro's history of nonpayment: The country has the largest per capita foreign debt in the world.

CNN: Commentary: Obama should ask Cuba to lift restrictions

With his power, cable and other utilities cut off because of nonpayment, the 55-year-old had half a dozen guns in his house and spent weeks planning the kidnapping, targeting firefighters rather than police Wednesday so he wouldn't be shot, authorities said Thursday.

NPR: Financial Crises For Ga. Man Who Held Firefighters

They often arrive willingly, but subsequently face conditions that the U.S. State Department says is indicative of forced labor -- the withholding of passports, restrictions on movement, nonpayment of wages for work up to 20 hours a day, threats, deprivation of food and sleep, and physical or sexual abuse.

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