[Taikonerd]

I just want to highlight Undue Medical Debt[0], the NGO that helped implement this.

They have a fascinating model -- they can buy the right to collect medical debts for pennies on the dollar. That debt would normally be bought by debt-collection companies. But once Undue Medical Debt buys a person's debt, they just... forgive it.

This means they can retire someone's $5,000 debt for a cost in the low hundreds. That might be life-changing for a poor family.

[0] https://unduemedicaldebt.org/

[ElijahLynn]

Wow, I saw them mentioned in the article, as I was skimming it. But didn't realize that's what was going on!

That's a pretty great model!