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Eric Adams: “We excuse 135 million exactly in medical debt.”

Featuring: Eric Adams, Democratic | Mayor of New York

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Former Mayor Eric Adams Talks Housing Policy, Crime & Life After City Hall | Coffee Talk

Published | Video Starts at 50:20

And then government must do things like we did with college loans, revamping the college loan program, like we did with medical debt. Number one cause of bankruptcy is medical debt. Right. We excuse 135 million exactly in medical debt. So government has a role in bringing down the cost. Affordable housing, health care, childcare. What we did around child care, free childcare. And so that's government role. (50:20–50:26)

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