And The Money Kept Rolling Out...

North Carolina erased 6.5 billion in medical debt for more than half a million residents. The program cost the state less than 2 million. Read that again. Two million to cancel billions.

This is proof of how blatantly manufactured medical debt really is.

Hospitals sell debt for pennies to collectors who hound patients for years. The same hospitals get tax breaks for “charity care” they rarely deliver. Then a program like this steps in, buys it all for pocket change, and wipes it clean. The system could fix this anytime. It just doesn’t want to.

Former NC Governor Cooper called it a success story.

Fine.

But it’s also an indictment. If we can eliminate debt this easily, why does it exist in the first place? Why do we let hospitals hoard surplus cash while families skip chemo or sell their cars?

Medical debt isn’t a moral failure. It’s a policy choice. Programs like this don’t solve the problem. They expose it.

Every state should copy it, not as a feel-good stunt but as a public reckoning. Because no one should owe their life to the billing department.

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SOURCE ➡️ https://ncnewsline.com/2025/10/13/ncs-medical-debt-relief-program-has-wiped-out-6-5b-owed-exceeding-expectations/