The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to eliminate all medical debt from credit reports. Will President-elect Trump ...
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Americans are carrying more than $220 billion in medical debt, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation: Approximately 14 million people (6% of U.S. adults) owe more than $1,000 in medical bills ...
A bill recently introduced to allow for positive reporting of medical debt payments might sound good on paper. In reality, it’s not likely to benefit consumers. It could even end up harming them.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — If you think you are alone in dealing with medical debt, guess again. Recent studies have shown that medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the United States.
In all, St. Paul will spend $1.1 million, funded by the American Rescue Plan, to erase $110 million of medical debt city wide ...
The Medical Debt Relief Pilot Program launched on July 1 – the start of the state’s 2025 fiscal year. Since then, it has ...
A federal lawsuit filed by a debt-collection agency threatens to derail a Biden administration's regulatory attempt at limiting — if not halting — families with medical debt being targeted ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gave billions of federal taxpayer dollars to North Carolina hospitals for medical debt relief. During her presidential campaign, Ms. Harris ...
Those costs led to worse financial strain among low-income people: a third were still saddled with medical debt in collections a year after having a baby and more than half faced financial stress.