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M Pedro Sanchez, the socialist prime minister of Spain, said plans to scrap their "golden visas" that allow wealthy people from outside the European Union to obtain residency permits on investing more than half a million dollars in real estate was part of a push to make housing "a right, not a speculative business."

An increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are using federal pandemic relief funds to pay residents’ burdensome medical debt.

Millions of Americans mired in medical debt face difficult financial decisions every day -- pay the debt or pay for rent, utilities and groceries. Some may even skip necessary health care for fear of sinking deeper into debt.

An increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are using federal pandemic relief funds to pay residents’ burdensome medical debt.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/governments-target-medical-debt-with-covid-relief-funds/"></div>Millions of Americans mired in medical debt face difficult financial decisions every day — pay the debt or pay for rent, utilities and groceries. Some may even skip necessary health care for fear of sinking deeper into debt. To address the problem, an increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are devising plans...

An increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are using federal pandemic relief funds to pay residents’ burdensome medical debt. Experts say medical debt often forces people to make difficult decisions about which bills to pay and even whether to seek critical medical care. Cook County, Illinois, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, Toledo, Ohio and the Boston suburb Somerville, Massachusetts, are among the communities looking into using American Rescue Plan Act funds to address the prob...

Governments target medical debt with COVID relief funds

The money is coming from the federal government’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act. Read more at Boston.com.

Governments in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio and other states are using money from the American Rescue Plan Act to relieve residents of medical debt.

An increasing number of municipal, county and state governments are using federal pandemic relief funds to pay residents burdensome medical debt.