Minimizing medical debt impact on your credit score
The article explains that medical debt usually won’t hurt credit scores quickly as many providers don’t report, but debt collectors can. It advises verifying bills, negotiating discounts or plans, weighing payment methods, considering loans, and possibly bankruptcy as last options, with steps to recover credit over time.
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Regulators should rigorously enforce antitrust laws and review past mergers. If anticompetitive effects are found in mergers violating the law, those companies should be broken up. Interviewed by Marcy Gordon. Edited for clarity and length.
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