Political Quotes

“No one should go bankrupt because they get sick. I was proud to be able to join Director Chopra of the CFPB along with Congresswoman Debbie Dingell in hosting a roundtable on the impact of medical debt on our families. We talked about the groundbreaking proposal by the Biden administration that would change the lives of millions of people where we would ban and prohibit medical debt from appearing on people's credit reports. I know this step is long overdue, having introduced legislation like the Restoring Unfairly Impaired Credit and Protecting Consumers Act which would prohibit outright the reporting of medical debt on consumer reports. Today, 15 million Americans have $49 billion in medical debt on their credit reports. In Wayne County, which is the largest county in Michigan, nearly one in six residents have medical debt. Behind these numbers are real people. They are our families, whose lives are being impacted by this crushing burden all because they got sick. We heard this firsthand from one of my residents, Livonia resident Erika Price, who was devastated by our broken healthcare system while watching her husband's body deteriorate. For many, medical debt means sleepless nights worrying about making ends meet. Some families go bankrupt. Others lose their homes. This is wrong, and, again, no one chooses to be sick.…”