More than 97,000 Connecticut residents received welcome news earlier this month when Gov. Ned Lamont’s administration told them nearly $315 million in medical debt had been erased.
The state has canceled more than $513 million in medical debt under Lamont’s initiative, part of a partnership with the nonprofit organization Undue Medical Debt kicked off in 2024. Connecticut is the most aggressive — but far from the only — state seeking to eliminate medical debt that plagues residents’ credit reports and causes mental anguish.
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