Medical debt initiative on track to erase $80 million in unpaid doctor bills for nearly 73,000 Cook County residents

A Cook County initiative to address the effects of medical debt has so far erased more than $25 million in past-due bills and is expected to wipe out about $55 million more in the coming weeks for 73,000 county residents total, officials told the Tribune.The first round of debt-buying has spent down just $800,000 of the county's allotted $12 million for the federal funded program.

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