
Undue Medical Debt
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RIP Medical Debt is now Undue Medical Debt. Ending medical debt, enabling fearless healthcare. Donor-powered debt relief. $20.3B+ relieved. Join us today!
Manhattan, NY
Joined April 2015
776,000 NJ residents freed from $1.1B in medical debt. New protections against credit reporting + collections. 💙 This is the kind of policy change that works.
njspotlightnews.org
More than 776,000 NJ residents have had past-due bills owed to a doctor, hospital or other health care provider canceled by Undue Medical Debt.
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Imagine opening your mailbox and finding your hospital debt erased. That’s reality for North Carolinians today. Up to $4B in medical debt will be abolished. 💙. Learn more:
ncnewsline.com
The first wave of North Carolinians whose hospital debts are being forgiven were notified last month. Up to $4 billion in debts could vanish.
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Delaware just erased $50M in medical debt 💙. Through a new partnership with us, over 17K residents will see their balances vanish — at a cost of just $500K to the state. Immediate relief. Systemic change. A model for others. Read more from @WHYY:
whyy.org
Gov. Meyer’s administration is partnering with Undue Medical Debt, which buys overdue accounts at a penny on the dollar, or less.
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Rural ERs are running without doctors. Patients face long transports, higher costs—and medical debt on top of a health crisis. 📖 Read the full @KFF story:
kffhealthnews.org
Some doctors and the groups that represent them say physicians’ extensive training leads to better emergency care, and that some hospitals are trying to save money by not hiring them. They support...
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Doctors are working harder, earning less—& medical practice bankruptcies just hit a 6-year high. When providers can’t make ends meet, patients lose access. This isn’t just about doctors’ pay. It’s about a system that makes care unaffordable for everyone.
axios.com
Medical practice bankruptcies hit a six-year high last year.
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Michigan spent $30M building a Medicaid work requirement system. Even with all that effort, 80,000 people were set to lose coverage. The truth: work requirements don’t encourage work—they take away healthcare. Coverage should be secure, not conditional. 💙.
michiganpublic.org
Michigan's health director spent a year and $30 million building a work requirements system for Medicaid. The problems he encountered have him worried now that 40 states must do the same by 2027.
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@nytimes We erase medical debt as an intervention—but the real fix is systemic reform so no one risks their life or financial future over insurance. 💙 (6/6).
nytimes.com
Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find that their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse.
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@nytimes If subsidies expire at the end of 2025, coverage will become even less affordable. (5/6).
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@nytimes The ACA promised options. But premiums are high, job lock persists, and gaps in coverage leave young adults exposed. (4/6).
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@nytimes Kathryn needed spine surgery at 26. Her biggest fear wasn’t the pain—it was losing her dad’s insurance the day before her operation. (3/6).
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@nytimes Daisy’s husband, living with Type 1 diabetes, nearly died in a coma during a short coverage gap between jobs. (2/6).
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The @nytimes asked: what happens when young adults “age out” of their parents’ health insurance? The answer is terrifying. (1/6).
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The takeaway: You can’t cut coverage without cutting care. And when care is cut, communities pay the price. 📖 Read more via @npr:
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