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Podcast Episode: 459

How $1 Can Erase $100 of Medical Debt in Your Community

By Army of Normal Folks

August 18, 2026 75 min

How $1 Can Erase $100 of Medical Debt in Your Community

1 out of every 3 Americans carries medical debt. It’s the #1 cause of bankruptcy in the country – and the single greatest predictor of whether you end up in it isn’t your income or your insurance. It’s whether or not you get sick.

Allison Sesso is a normal person leading an abnormal (and awesome) nonprofit doing something about it. Undue Medical Debt has erased nearly $50 billion in medical debt for over 31 million people! 

In this episode, she breaks down exactly what to do if you get a bill you can’t afford, why you should never put medical debt on a credit card, how debt collectors acquire debt for pennies on the dollar, how they’ve flipped this very same model on its head to abolish debt, and how you can partner with them to erase a crazy amount of medical debt in your community.

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