Ohio fees for debt collection questioned

When a public university can’t collect overdue tuition from a former student, Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center can’t get a patient to pay medical bills, or a municipal ambulance service has an unreimbursed run, it eventually falls to the Ohio attorney general’s office to go after the debtors. Officials with the attorney general’s collections-enforcement section say they’re pursuing about $34 billion in government debt owed by consumers and corpora