Toledo, Ohio has given its residents a new and unusual holiday gift: the promise of medical debt relief.
In early November, its city council voted to use $800,000 of American Rescue Plan Act funding to wipe out the medical debt of residents in need, with the help of an organization called RIP Medical Debt. Lucas County, where Toledo is the county seat, even said it would match the amount for a total of $1.6 million toward eliminating medical debt.
“I think this is going to help a lot of people with putting food back on the table, paying the rent, paying your utilities, help them go back to the doctor,” Michele Grim, the city councilwoman and state representative-elect who led the push for the program, told MedPage Today.
With the $1….
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