A bipartisan bill would help Ohioans with medical debt pay it off without losing their homes or incomes or leaving their credit rating in tatters.
It’s a situation that Rachel Doan of Columbus knows all too well. In 2010, her seven-year-old son, Luke, was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a disease that required expensive hospitalization and treatment.
“My husband and I both had jobs. We had benefits,” Doan said. After his first hospitalization, they received his first medical bill for $125,000. The medical bills kept coming after Luke went into kidney failure.
“There was a huge financial albatross over us. I would like to tell you that albatross is gone, but 15 years later, I am…
