WBUR: Medical debt is crushing working-class people. Organizers in Florida hope federal funds can help
Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes learns more about how some local grassroots organizers hope to use the funds to relieve medical debt for residents. She speaks with Afua Atta-Mensah, chief of programs at the nonprofit Community Change and Tara “Glitter” Felten, a senior community organizer for the coalition Central Florida Jobs with Justice.
Medical debt is crushing working-class people
Some local grassroots organizers hope to use funds from the American Rescue Plan to relieve medical debt for residents.
"I went to get groceries and someone had to help me in the line:" Thousands of Orange County residents struggling with medical debt post pandemic
Thousands of Central Floridians are said to be struggling with an overwhelming amount of medical debt following the pandemic, and according to Sam Delgado with Central Florida Jobs With Justice, it sits between 250,000 to 300,000.