Veteran-Owned Businesses Team Up to Pay Off Medical Debts Across Veteran Community

Born Primitive and Black Rifle Coffee Company have pledged 100 percent of their profits through Veterans Day to pay off the medical debt of U.S. veterans.

Army veteran Mara Collins (L) talks with fellow Army veteran and Black Rifle Coffee Company co-founder Mat Best after learning that the veteran-owned Black Rifle Coffee Company and veteran-owned Born Primitive had donated to pay off her medical debt. Courtesy of Black Rifle Coffee Company

Army veteran Mara Collins has grown accustomed to many hardships over the years. When she first heard a group of total strangers had paid off her six-figure medical debts, she thought it was “too good to be true.”

Collins was left to care for their two young children after her husband, Army Sgt. David Collins was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq in 2006.