Hospitals and other health care providers in New York would be banned from reporting medical debt to credit agencies under a bill passed this week by the state’s legislature – a measure intended to limit the damage that illness and …
Buying homes, getting jobs and borrowing money will be easier after an agreement by the three biggest U.S. consumer credit reporting services with New York. “This is huge,” Chi Chi Wu, an attorney at Boston-based National Consumer Law Center, said …
Twenty five percent of Americans say they currently have more medical debt than emergency savings, according to a Bankrate.com report. This number nearly doubles (44%) among those earning less than $30,000 per year. Also, according to the report, people who …
