How your credit score dings you for getting sick or hurt and how that may change. I'm David Brancaccio in New York. The outgoing presidential administration is moving to bar unpaid medical bills from hurting consumer credit scores, but the new Congress could put the medical debt demerits back on. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall-Genzor reports.

The new final rule was issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

In a statement today, Vice President Kamala Harris says it'll remove $49 billion in unpaid medical bills

from 15 million Americans' credit reports.

Harris says the rule will make it easier for people to get loans for houses, cars, and small businesses. The American Bankers Association

doesn't like the new rule. In a letter to the CFPB last August, it said consumer delinquencies

and defaults will increase if lenders can't consider medical debt when

making loans. They say banks will tighten their lending standards. Incoming Republicans can use

the Congressional Review Act to unwind this rule. Under the Act, any rules issued up to 60

days before the end of a congressional session can be rolled back. Congress just has to pass

legislation. Once that's signed by incoming President Trump, the rule would be repealed.

I'm Nancy Marshall Genser for Marketplace.

The world's biggest consumer technology show is getting underway in Las Vegas.

CES is about companies trying to get attention for their latest gadgets, gizmos and other contraptions. A lot of it with artificial intelligence poured on top these days. My former marketplace colleague and now the BBC's North America technology correspondent, Lily Jamali, is there. Well, from the latest apps to all manner of slick new devices, there is a little

something for everyone here at CES in Las Vegas. The event officially kicks off on Tuesday. There will be

4,500 exhibitors showing off their wares across 2.5 million square feet of convention space. Already we have gotten

to play with robot dogs. We've gotten to test out stringless smart guitars, and there's so much

more in store from here in Las Vegas. But looming large over the event politics, there are so many

questions about what the incoming Trump administration's

tariff policy might look like and whether it could hurt the ability for American consumers

to buy the kinds of things that they see on display here at CES. The Consumer Technology Association,

which runs CES, has expressed their concern, saying that just for the tablet and

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