4sight Health March 4, 2025
Amid much fanfare, Governor J.B. Pritzker announced on February 26, 2025 that the state of Illinois would cancel $220 million in outstanding medical debt owned by low-income residents. This was the second round of Pritzker’s $1 billion medical debt relief program. Since the program’s launch in early 2024, Illinois has erased more than $345 million in medical debt for 270,000 residents across 100 counties. The debt abolished per person averages $1,300.
Unfortunately, appearances are deceptive. Pritzker’s medical debt relief program cancels debt that hospitals, health systems and other medical providers have already written off. No debt collector was coming to wrench money out of the hands of poor Illinoisans. While the letters that recipients receive detailing their medical debt relief...
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