JB Pritzker: “We can often get [medical debt] for one penny on the dollar.”

“You just get a letter in the mail. We do it without you asking. We just go and we buy the debt from the hospitals, from the collection agencies. We can often get [medical debt] for one penny on the dollar. So we can get this done. And every state ought to be doing this. We, we were one of the very, very first states. We were the first county in the country to do it.” (11:48–11:52)

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