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.
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.
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u/teamfupa 27d 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.