How to stop medical debt from destroying your credit score

Roughly 100 million adults in America are carrying some form of medical debt right now, according to KFF Health News. On July 15, 2025, a federal judge in Texas vacated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s medical debt rule.

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