The state has erased over $1.4 billion in medical debt for almost 700,000 Illinoisans for pennies on the dollar, two years after launching a new relief program. At its launch, the Illinois Medical Debt Relief Program aimed to eliminate $1 billion in debt. The state has surpassed that goal by $400 million, spending less than […]
Bernarda Malevska
Bernarda is a graduate student in journalism with Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and a Fellow in its Medill Illinois News Bureau working in partnership with Capitol News Illinois.