This Thanksgiving is a little sweeter for about 1,500 Nebraskans, 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…