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North Carolina Medical-Debt Relief

Medicaid-conditioned debt relief erased $6.5B.

Health AccessGovernor / ExecutiveLiberty checkEvidence favors the policy

A · 21/24

1 · The idealist case (in its proponents' own framing)

Use Medicaid incentives to make hospitals forgive debt.

2 · The realist counter-case

Critics question durability.

3 · Predicted vs. measured — with caveats

$6.5B erased for 2.5M people across all 99 hospitals - exceeded projections.

4 · Liberty check

Frees households from medical debt via voluntary hospital participation.

5 · The real tradeoff

An efficient, high-leverage win.

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