'Nearly 1 in 5 adults have one or more medical debt collections listed on their credit report,' says RepRashida. '[They] may be denied housing, transportation, or other necessities because of a sudden health crisis or visit to the emergency room.'
Asserting that"undergoing a medically necessary procedure should never haunt someone financially," Democratic Michigan Congresswoman
on Wednesday reintroduced legislation to ban the collection of medical debt for two years and prohibit such indebtedness from appearing on patients' credit reports.would safeguard people who,"at no fault of their own, got sick and could not afford medical care due to our broken healthcare system," the congresswoman's office explained., but the Senate declined to take up the measure.
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