{"id":22947,"date":"2024-06-12T07:54:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T11:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22947"},"modified":"2024-06-12T07:54:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T11:54:25","slug":"biden-administration-announces-a-plan-for-removing-medical-debt-from-credit-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22947","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration announces a plan for removing medical debt from credit reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Noam Levey for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Americans would no longer have to worry about medical debts dragging down their credit scores under federal regulations proposed Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If enacted, the rules would dramatically expand protections for tens of millions of Americans burdened by medical bills they can\u2019t afford.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/06\/12\/nx-s1-4998853\/medical-debt-credit-scores-reports-rule\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/shots-health-news\/2024\/06\/12\/nx-s1-4998853\/medical-debt-credit-scores-reports-rule\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Noam Levey for NPR) Americans would no longer have to worry about medical debts dragging down their credit scores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,56],"tags":[501,385,238,216],"class_list":["post-22947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-health-care-redesign","category-medical-debt","tag-consumer-credit-reports","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-healthcare-finance","tag-medical-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22948,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22947\/revisions\/22948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}