For about 1,500 Nebraskans, this Thanksgiving is a little sweeter knowing their medical debt was forgiven due to the work of some Creighton University students.
The Creighton chapter of Students for a National Health Program spent the past year holding fundraisers like bake sales, a flower sale and a dance- off event to raise about $10,000 that erased more than $2 million in medical debt. They partnered with Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that negotiates with hospitals to buy medical debt at a lower price.
Allison Benjamin, who graduated from Creighton in May and was president of the campus chapter, used an example that Undue Medical Debt may buy $100 of medical debt for only $1…