New York City pledged this week to pay down $2 billion worth of residents’ medical debt. In doing so, it has come around to an innovation, started in the Midwest, that’s ridding millions of Americans of health care debt.
Opinion | ‘Band-Aid on a Gaping Wound’: What We Heard This Week
“Those are like a Band-Aid on a gaping wound.” — L. Casey Chosewood, MD, MPH, director of the Office for Total Worker Health at NIOSH,