In many cases, the medical debt rules won bipartisan support, reflecting the overwhelming popularity of these consumer protections. And measures to limit aggressive collections against residents with medical debt were derailed in Indiana, Montana, and Nevada. Under the Biden administration, CFPB researchers found that medical debt, unlike other debt, was not a good predictor of creditworthiness. The patients’ group has been pushing for state medical debt protections in recent years, including in Montana and South Dakota. That will almost certainly make the nation’s medical debt problem more dire.