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Local U.S. governments planning to use Covid relief funds to ease medical debtss

Wed, 2023-02-15 09:25 — mike kraft
Governments target medical debt with COVID relief funds Millions of Americans mired in medical debt face difficult financial decisions every day — pay the debt or pay for rent, utilities and groceries. Some may even skip necessary health care for fear of sinking deeper into debt.

...To address the problem, an increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are devising plans to spend federal coronavirus pandemic relief funds to eliminate residents’ medical debt and ease those debt burdens.  ...

ALSO SEE: 18% drop since 2020 in people with reported medical debt

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