Important Takeaways:

• Medical debt is becoming an increasingly pervasive problem, with a seemingly never-ending stream of media reports chronicling bankruptcies, garnished wages, lost homes and insidious tactics from hospitals all too eager to sue their patients.
• State lawmakers are taking notice and enacting a flurry of reforms designed to protect their constituents from late notices, threatening voicemails and credit score declines
• The actions — in more than a dozen states — represent a determined, if patchwork, effort to help the roughly 100 million Americans who deal with medical debt.

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