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How to Buy Forgiveness from Medical Debt

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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The rise in healthcare costs and the crushing medical debts that follow from that are a problem that long predates the pandemic. Two former debt collectors got together to try to tackle the problem from a very unexpected direction. Reverend John Jackman, pastor of Trinity Moravian Church in North Carolina: "This was just astonishing"

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