Coming right after a judge struck down Click to Cancel done by the FTC.

FUCK these CORRUPT old pieces of shit, they should be held liable for the pains they cause Americans and not busy selling out to big corporate interests

I’m pretty sure we’re going to be thanking the heritage foundation for decades and decades to come… They’ve successfully gotten their piece of shit judges installed all over the country. It’s been in the works for decades and now with this last election win and their progress with project 2025 we’re fucked for the rest of some of our lifetimes.

Between legalized gerrymandering and ever popular propaganda outlets, the best we can hope for is a slim majority win sometimes that isn’t GOP, which will simply delay more worse things, not acutually progress anything, but every other outcome will just be more of the same absolute garbage from the ownership class GOP.

I wonder if the judge got any gifts from the industry.

Americans’ unpaid medical bills will remain on their credit reports after a federal judge last week vacated a Biden-era Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule that would have removed such debt.

Judge Sean Jordan of the US District Court of Texas’ Eastern District found that the rule exceeded the bureau’s authority under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, agreeing with the arguments of two industry associations, which had filed a lawsuit against the rule that was later joined by the Trump administration.

The court found that “every major substantive provision of the Medical Debt Rule” exceeded the CFPB’s authority, Jordan, a President Donald Trump appointee, wrote in his opinion.

The rule, which the bureau finalized shortly before the Biden administration left office in January, would have removed an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million people. It would have also banned lenders from using certain medical information in loan decisions.

The rule also would have prohibited lenders from using medical devices, such as wheelchairs or prosthetic limbs, as collateral for loans and barred them from repossessing the devices if patients were unable to repay the loans. However, lenders would have been able to continue to consider medical information in certain situations, including when a consumer requests a loan to pay health expenses or asks for a temporary postponement of loan payments for medical reasons.

Those with medical debt on their credit reports could have received a 20-point boost, on average, in their credit score, the bureau said when issuing the rule in January. Also, the rule was expected to lead to the approval of about 22,000 additional mortgages every year.

Medical debt on credit reports is not a good predictor of a person’s ability to pay other loans, the bureau’s research has found. Plus, health care bills often contain mistakes, which can lead to extended battles between patients, health insurers and medical providers.

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