Few areas of credit have changed as fast as medical debt — and the headlines haven’t kept up. Here’s the timeline, and what’s actually true today. If you’ve tried to figure out whether your medical bills can hurt your credit, you’ve probably run into conflicting answers. That’s because the rules have genuinely shifted several times…
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