{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Health Affairs This Week","title":"The Plan to Remove Medical Debt From Credit Reports","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":833,"description":"Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Senior Deputy Editor Rob Lott to the program to discuss a recent policy proposal that would result in prohibiting medical debt from being included in credit reporting and how the upcoming presidential election could play into the policy's implementation.\nRead our \"ahead-of-print\" article on how adverse childhood experiences and health care utilization and expenditures.   \n\nCheck out this year's You're A Health Policy Wonk If... contest!\nSubmit an abstract for our upcoming theme issue focusing on Food, Nutrition, and Health. Submissions are due by Monday, July 29th.\nSubmit an article for the Forefront series \"Supplemental Benefits in Medicare Advantage.\" Submissions will be taken on a rolling basis through June 2025.\n\nRelated Articles:\nFACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Announces Proposal to Prohibit Medical Bills from Being Included on Credit Reports and Calls on States and Localities to Take Further Actions to Reduce Medical Debt\nIllness And Injury As Contributors To Bankruptcy (Health Affairs)\nMedical Bankruptcy: Dranove And Millenson Respond (Health Affairs)\nThe Joint Distribution Of High Out-Of-Pocket Burdens, Medical Debt, And Financial Barriers To Needed Care (Health Affairs)\nHEALTH POLICY BRIEF: Health, Income, & Poverty: Where We Are & What Could Help (Health Affairs)","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/1yTEmrg3NcfwPvygDcOosqdCKJnotdzHk5P0Oq8y-us/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE2NjA3LzE2MDY4/MzkyNjUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}