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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 to […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- Ad...

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 problem. They are teaming up with teaming up with RIP Medical Debt, a nonprofit that since 2014 has used...