medical debt

On Monday, the Cleveland City Council unveiled a plan to erase the debt of an estimated 50,000 Clevelanders.

Akron City Council voted to approve a resolution to relieve residents' medical debt, but the city will need to budget money to deliver on that relief.

More than 50 consumer and patient groups want the Biden Administration to aggressively protect Americans from medical bills and debt collectors. The effort follows a KHN/NPR investigation.

Cleveland City Council may approve $1.9 million in American Rescue Plan Act funding to erase approximately $190 million of Clevelanders' medical debt.

Cleveland city officials are exploring a plan already being used by Toledo and Columbus to work with a nonprofit to buy the medical debt of residents from hospitals.

The state law would follow what a federal law is already doing by stopping the collection of loans for education and some federal debt.