Hill August 24, 2024
Vice President Harris wants to erase billions of dollars in medical debt, a longtime progressive goal that Democrats hope will be an electoral winner in the fall.
The economic plan Harris released last week called for Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), to work with states to erase medical debt for millions of Americans “to help them avoid accumulating such debt in the future, because no one should go bankrupt just because they had the misfortune of becoming sick or hurt.”
But details on how it would be accomplished are thin, and the scope of the proposal would require enormous levels of cooperation with states and with Congress.
Voters have identified health costs...
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