GREENVILLE, N.C. (WITN) - Governor Josh Stein announced a huge milestone in our state’s efforts to tackle North Carolinians’ medical debt.

Stein says more than $6.5 billion in debt has been relieved for over 2.5 million North Carolinians as part of the state’s medical debt mitigation program .

One senior citizen in Greenville said that’s great because she knows seniors who don’t seek care out of fear of getting into new debt.

“They’d rather take a loss and just go home to sit and let their back heal or however they’re going to do it,” Yolanda Sheppard said. “It’s kind of sad, I find, that unfortunately this stuff happens.”

Even with a step in the right direction, the state is seeing uncertainty with Medicaid. According to KFF, President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill would make a 15 perc

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