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With Trump on the way, look to states to pick up medical debt fight
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With Trump on the way, look to states to pick up medical debt fight
Worried that President-elect Donald Trump will curtail federal efforts to take on the nation’s medical debt problem, patient and consumer advocates are looking to states to help people who can’t afford their medical bills or pay down their debts.
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$88 billion in medical debt burdens 43 million consumers
A new report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finds that the nation’s health care system is supported by an infrastructure of billing, payments, collections and credit reporting that is fraught with commonplace mistakes. 
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