![]() ![]() The Emergency Medical Services Association opposes. The legislation requires medical debt collectors to inform debtors “Colorado law prohibits credit bureaus from reporting medical debt or factoring medical debt into a credit score…” The Colorado Hospital Association, Counties and Commissioners Acting Together, and Disability Law support this bill. This bill prohibits one tactic, the claim that the medical debt will affect credit reports. Medical bill collectors have been known to use high pressure collection tactics. People can get saddled with big medical bills they can’t pay off. HB23-1126, "Stop medical debt from being on credit scores and consumer reports," shows the harsh impact of our current health care payment system. Let’s start with health care and consumer protections. Health care in its various forms and impacts falls into each no-fix category. We lack the will to fix them, the issues are too big and complicated and/or legislators and the governor will only nibble at the edges rather than take the big bite.
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