Eli Lehrer, vice president of Washington, D.C., operations for the Heartland Institute, explains reforms that would help improve North Carolina’s auto insurance system. These comments are linked to the report North Carolina’s Auto Insurance System: Still Unfair, Still in Need of Improvements.
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N.C. House bill aims at protecting consumers from being financially ruined by medical debt
A North Carolina House bill aimed at protecting consumers from being financially destroyed by medical debt was filed Tuesday, May 24. H.B. 1039, Medical Debt De-Weaponization Act would create a pro-family, anti-poverty consumer protection law geared toward setting transparent parameters around the provision of charity care, limiting the ability of large medical facilities to charge unreasonable interest rates and employ unfair tactics in debt collection.