RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- Governor Josh Stein announced on Monday that through North Carolina's Medical Debt Relief Program, more than $6.5 billion in medical debt has been relieved for more than 2.5 ...

Mark from North Carolina is 65 — but he’s not retiring any time soon because he’s made “absolutely horrible decisions with money all my life.” He told The Ramsey Show that his wife has about $10,000 ...

North Carolina officials had been quietly laboring for months on an ambitious plan to tackle the state’s mammoth medical debt problem when Gov. Roy Cooper stepped before cameras in July to announce ...

A North Carolina program incentivizing hospitals to relieve patients’ medical debts has cut more than $6.5 billion in accrued debts for more than 2.5 million people since launching last summer. The ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Millions of North Carolinians with medical debts will see their ...

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During her acceptance speech Thursday night, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris addressed the exorbitant cost of health care in the United States. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — On Monday, Gov. Josh Stein and North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Dev Sangvai announced that more than $6.5 billion in medical debt has been forgiven in the past ...

After a routine trip to her mailbox, Dawn Daly-Mack almost threw away an important letter that she thought was junk mail. "I opened it up and it said, 'Your medical bill has been paid,'" says ...

Around 42 to 43 million Americans hold federal student loans, or roughly one in six adults in the country.