Cooper in Winston-Salem speaking on medical debt relief [Video]

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Governor Roy Cooper visited Winston-Salem Tuesday to host a roundtable on medical debt relief.

He visited Trinity Moravian Church to learn more about their efforts relieving medical debt through the Debt Jubilee Project. The visit included a roundtable discussion to better understand how recent actions to relieve medical debt could benefit millions of North Carolinians. 

While the Debt Jubilee Project has supported thousands of North Carolinians in the Triad area. there are approximately 90,000 people in Forsyth County with more than $2 millions of combined medical debt, and about 400,000 with nearly $10 million in medical debt in the Triad area. 

“Today I heard the inspiring story of a community that has come together to help relieve the tremendous burden of medical debt for thousands of …