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Trump admin moves to gut Washington’s new medical debt protection

medical debt

OLYMPIA [Jake Goldstein-Street]—Just months after Governor Bob Ferguson signed a Washington law to keep medical debt off consumers’ credit reports, the Trump administration is looking to block such policies. The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau now says federal law preempts laws like Washington’s. The federal agency’s position is a reversal from the Biden era. Backers of Senate […]

Andrew Brammeier: One man’s battle to overcome cancer

Andrew Brammeier

MUKILTEO, November 2, 2022—Andrew Brammeier was an athletic man. He ate healthy, ran two to three times a week and even competed in a 5K marathon just months before the doctors gave him the news: he had metastasized testicular cancer. Although 95% of people who develop testicular cancer survive at least five years after their […]

Making Strides Against Breast Cancer

Making Strides Against Breast Cancerby Mario Lotmore On Saturday, October 26 over one thousand gathered at the Snohomish County Campus Plaza in Everett, for the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk.  The American Cancer Society started Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walks to unite communities in the fight against breast cancer.  Donations from the event fund […]

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