WASHINGTON – In response to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) recent attempt to block state-level efforts to ban medical-debt reporting, Consumers for Quality Care (CQC) released the following statement from board member Jim Manley, a veteran communications strategist and former senior advisor to Senate leadership:

“With this rule change, millions of consumers across the country will be left with no protection from our worsening medical-debt crisis. Health care costs are spiraling out of control—and this rule blocks one of the very few avenues that state policymakers have to give their residents relief from the medical-debt crisis. 

This is wrong and should be opposed by states across the country that have passed state-level protections, including those with Democratic legislatures—like Nevada and Virginia—and those with Republican legislatures—like North Carolina. Keeping families from financial ruin in some of the most desperate times in their lives should not be a partisan issue.”