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Snap’s Evan Spiegel joins MacKenzie Scott in the billionaire race to erase medical debt—wiping out $550 million for 260,000 Californians
The Snap co-founder's donation to Undue Medical Debt is the latest sign that high-leverage debt relief philanthropy is becoming a defining cause.
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Snap co‑founder Evan Spiegel and his wife, model‑entrepreneur Miranda Kerr, made a multimillion‑dollar contribution this spring to the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt. The donation triggered the cancellation of $550 million in unpaid medical bills for more than 261,000 Californians. Their giving positions Spiegel alongside philanthropist MacKenzie Scott as one of the largest individual donors in the growing medical‑debt‑relief movement, which leverages distressed‑debt markets to address gaps in U.S. healthcare.
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