Rev. Kate Byrd knows the emotional toll of medical debt after seeing the bills pile up for her family member after cancer treatment.
“This person had three forms of insurance and was receiving in one or two bills, tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of medical debt,” Byrd said. “It was shocking to me.”
When she heard about the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt, which works to relieve the financial burden caused by medical debt, she decided to join in on the efforts.
“It was so clear to me that one medical crisis could undo your entire life and family, and so if there was something that we could do that was as small as just a campaign to help, I thought, ‘This seems wonderful.'”
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Smithfield is the latest in to take an interest in abolishing $14 million in medical debt in Johnston County.
This comes as other churches across the state have worked …