{"id":24960,"date":"2025-09-26T08:31:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24960"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:31:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:31:37","slug":"trump-punted-on-medical-debt-protection-now-the-battle-is-in-the-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24960","title":{"rendered":"Trump punted on medical debt protection. Now the battle is in the states"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Noam Levey, Katheryn Houghton, Arielle Zionts for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Trump administration scaling back federal efforts to protect Americans from medical bills they can&#8217;t pay, advocates for patients and consumers have shifted their work to contain the nation&#8217;s medical debt problem to state Capitols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite progress in some mostly blue states this year, however, recent setbacks in more conservative legislatures underscore the persistent challenges in strengthening patient protections.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/25\/nx-s1-5552684\/medical-debt-credit-report-state-laws\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/09\/25\/nx-s1-5552684\/medical-debt-credit-report-state-laws\">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, Katheryn Houghton, Arielle Zionts for NPR) With the Trump administration scaling back federal efforts to protect Americans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,56],"tags":[385,357,216],"class_list":["post-24960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-medical-debt","tag-healthcare-costs","tag-legislative-update","tag-medical-debt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960","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=24960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24961,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24960\/revisions\/24961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}