'When you get sick, the focus should be on getting better'

Ambulances lined up at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in California

Ambulances are lined up at the Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center in Oakland, California

(Image credit: Jane Tyska / Digital First Media / East Bay Times via Getty Images)

published 17 June 2024

'The credit reporting system shouldn't punish Americans for getting sick'

Rohit Chopra at CNN

Medical billing errors are "filling Americans' credit reports with junk data that makes lenders' underwriting decisions less accurate," says Rohit Chopra. Medical debt is a "poor signal of whether someone will pay a debt," and banning it from credit reports "would alleviate a great deal of misery and unfair coercion that has tremendous financial implications for individuals and families." It is "time to put an end to medical debt coercion and protect Americans' financial health."

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