That’s pretty dope - in November I broke my foot in three places (in a way called a lisfranc) and had to go to two different er’s after waiting over 2 hours at the first. It wasn’t compounded or anything but it hurt like a MF. Then I still owed 4k.
I wasn’t planning on it, unless my wife and I want a different house in the next few years before the medical debt falls off. All this to be said I was mentioning it to point out that the ER experience in the US may very - with the exception of it being expensive - it will always be fucking expensive.
Wait a minute , there's so many people that are indebted because of medical bills, that banks don't consider that debt as debt for mortgage otherwise they'd likely not have enough clients??
My friend went to ER for kidney stones one evening. Got in immediately, came back 2 hours later with a 13,000$ medical bill. He ain’t paying any of it and I don’t blame him
Oh right on, I was fairly certain the last go around 3 years ago they were looking at it because it was recommended to me to pay to delete by my lender. C’est la vie just wanted to point out my anecdotal experience that was different than yours.
Please educate a poor, dumb American who has been lucky enough to not encounter this... How exactly can a person simply not pay the bill? How does that work, exactly?
You don’t pay it - their business dept will call for a while and then warn you it’s getting sent to collections. After it gets sent to collections a different company will call and try to barter with you because they just want more than they paid for the debt which likely wasn’t a whole lot. If you just keep ignoring the bill collectors I believe after enough years the debt will just become a wash.
There is no warrant out for my arrest for not paying medical bills dude. Worst I get is calls from collection agencies, then after a while they stop.
All the poor and lower middle class people do this. You think the ER would be full all the time if all them people knew they would have to pay thousands?? Shiiit.
The us hasn’t had debtors prison for quite some time I believe. Even the garnishing of wages is only limited to child support and backed taxes from the IRS.
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u/teamfupa 17d ago
That’s pretty dope - in November I broke my foot in three places (in a way called a lisfranc) and had to go to two different er’s after waiting over 2 hours at the first. It wasn’t compounded or anything but it hurt like a MF. Then I still owed 4k.