After NBC News reported how North Carolina hospital system Atrium Health aggressively pursued ex-patients’ debts, Atrium said it would forgive the debts of 11,500 people.

People don’t choose to have accidents, cancer or heart attacks. This plan helps eliminate medical debt for low to moderate-income people in North Carolina,” Cooper, a Democrat, said in a ...

In mid-August, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said 99 of the state’s eligible hospitals had signed on to a medical debt relief program he recently initiated.

And every one of North Carolina’s 99 hospitals agreed to the state’s demands. In exchange for federal money, hospitals would wipe out billions of dollars of patient debt and adopt new ...

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And every one of North Carolina’s 99 hospitals agreed to the state’s demands. In exchange for federal money, hospitals would wipe out billions of dollars of patient debt and adopt new ...