He doesn’t have anything to worry about.
IIRC, Medical Bills do not affect your credit score any more, since the Dems and Biden changed the law, and they cannot be collected past 4 years.................
Legally speaking, he's responsible. That's not a "technicality" according to the article, it's legal fact.
My now ex brother in law paid off tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills that insurance didn't cover when his wife passed away from pancreatic cancer back in 2008.
The fact of the matter is that marriage makes a husbband liable for all debt incurred by a wife and vice versa. Not sure if that's true in every state, here in HELLINOIS it absolutely does.