TEXAS — Between his classes, college applications and getting in as much time on the golf course as he can, high school senior Eli Yorio added another extracurricular that many students don’t even think about — wiping out medical debt.
“My family and I grew up volunteering at the Central Texas Food Bank,” Yorio said. “We did family nights every Wednesday, and then when I was old enough, we started volunteering at the mobile food pantries, and that’s when I heard about medical debt and how it causes food insecurity.”
Yorio’s father is an oncologist and hematologist, and he also shared the issue of medical debt with his son.
According to Undue Medical Debt (Undue), an organization that works to relieve people across the…