Abdul El-Sayed Falsely Claims He ‘Erased’ $700 Million in Medical Debt: The Truth Is Far More Modest

"$700 MILLION MEDICAL DEBT ERASED." So boasted the first major TV ad for Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate campaign in Michigan—in a bright-yellow, all-caps caption blanketing the screen, as the voice-over said that El-Sayed "got rid of millions of dollars of medical debt." This claim referred to an initiative El-Sayed launched during his roughly two-year tenure as head of the Wayne County health department