About 100 million Americans carry medical debt, and almost none of them did anything riskier than get sick. A bill from an emergency room says nothing about whether you pay your rent, yet it can wreck a credit score for seven years and cost you an apartment, a car loan, or a job — a punishment for the crime of needing care. Regulators started fixing this by rule, which means the next administration can undo it with a memo, and the debt collectors are lobbying for exactly that. Resistbot is asking the candidates running in 2026 to write it into law: medical bills stay off consumer credit reports, permanently, where no agency can quietly reverse it.
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About 100 million Americans carry medical debt, and almost none of them did anything riskier than get sick. A bill from an emergency room says nothing about whether you pay your rent, yet it can wreck a credit score for seven years and cost you an apartment, a car loan, or a job — a punishment for the crime of needing care. Regulators started fixing this by rule, which means the next administration can undo it with a memo, and the debt collectors are lobbying for exactly that. Resistbot is asking the candidates running in 2026 to write it into law: medical bills stay off consumer credit reports, permanently, where no agency can quietly reverse it.
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