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Is medical debt vanishing from credit reports?

June 22, 2022 By Liz Weston

Health care bills are about to become far less threatening to the financial well-being of millions of Americans.

The three major credit bureaus are erasing most medical debts from people’s credit reports, and the Biden administration is reducing or eliminating medical debt as a factor in government lending decisions.

In my latest for the Associated Press, what you need to know about medical debt now.

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