If you listened closely at last week’s press conference—the one where Vice Mayor Dan Wu announced $12.6 million in medical debt had vanished from Fayette County—there was a faint sound underneath all that civic cheer.
A tiny ka-ching.
Because by the time the Herald-Leader’s Adrian Paul Bryant peeled back the wrapping paper, Lexington’s feel-good million-dollar partnership with Undue Medical Debt looked a lot less like philanthropy and a lot more like your uncle wiring money to the “IRS” after a suspicious voicemail…