Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs announces $429 million in medical debt cancellation for over 352,000 residents.
PHOENIX — Medical debt is one of the leading causes of bankruptcy, and in Arizona, the estimated amount of medical debt is about $2.4 billion.
But hundreds of thousands of Arizonans just got relief from those bills.
Last year, Gov. Katie Hobbs’ office announced a partnership with a national nonprofit, Undue Medical Debt, that would cancel $2 billion of medical debt for up to one million Arizonans.
On Wednesday, the governor made an announcement on Today in AZ,…