Medical debt will be canceled for around 250‚000 people in Connecticut‚ the first state in the U.S. to do so. The New England state is planning to erase approximately $1 billion in medical debt this year by using American Rescue Plan Act funds. Speaking on Good Morning America‚ Democrat Governor Ned Lamont said that people struggling with medical debt "should not have to suffer twice: first with the illness‚ then with the debt." "I think it is really important that people have a sense...