The women, from Ithaca, raised $12,500 so a nonprofit organization could forgive the past-due bills of about 1,300 state residents.

It only cost them $12,500 to erase $1.5M in medical debts. That shows that the debts shouldn’t even exist at that level in the first place.

Source: 2 New Yorkers Erased $1.5 Million in Medical Debt for Hundreds of Strangers – The New York Times