Dana Downey of Pennsylvania speaks at a roundtable on Capitol Hill on Sept. 13, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Health advocates and community members gathered in Washington D.C. to push the Biden administration to take additional action on medical debt in an event hosted by Community Catalyst, a national organization fighting for race equality and health justice.
Lawmakers in several states are working to expand medical debt protections for patients, even after the Trump administration reversed course and told states they don’t have authority to take action on credit reporting.
In Alaska and Michigan, legislators are nonetheless advancing bills to…