In the past two years, at least five Michigan counties have worked with a non-profit to help erase some residents’ medical debt.
The counties partner with the group Undue Medical Debt. They subsidize that group’s work in buying up medical debt at a fraction of the initial cost, forgiving it, and notifying residents that they’ve done so.
Wayne and Oakland counties recently announced they’re already wiped out about $36 million in medical debt for potentially tens of thousands of residents. Ingham, Kalamazoo, and Muskegon counties are also running similar programs with Undue Medical Debt, previously known as RIP Medical Debt.
Karley Abramson, a researcher with the Citizens’ Research…
