Harris pledges to scrap billions in medical debt with new presidential platform
WASHINGTON — Vice President Harris says she wants to cancel billions of dollars in medical debt if elected president this fall.
The plan, unveiled in a wide-ranging platform to cut in Americans’ economic costs this Friday, is a longtime progressive policy goal. It eclipses a Biden administration initiative this June to exclude medical debt from credit reports, as well as previous Covid-19 relief funding aimed at clearing debt. However, erasing bills amounting to more than $200 billion across the U.S. would require unprecedented congressional and state government cooperation with the White House.
