Don’t feel alone, I work near the INS building here in SF and look at the pregnant women in line to get handouts.
Pay the bill and don’t risk your credit score.
Obama cheated and got promoted based on his race and political positions, he never paid a price for anything for the results he has gotten. You are the opposite.
Check the law in your state, in some states medical bills cannot ruin your credit. If so, you could mail it back and say send my bills to Piglosi.
You really don’t know what you should do? Really?
Your family comes first. Don’t do something stupid. Let’s wait it out and see, stay alert and active, but you don’t have to do anything right now.
I have a medical bill sitting here, too. I’ll pay it but just not quickly. Don’t mess yourself over. Get it paid.
cash out all of your stocks and 401k, buy silver, buy land to live off of, and basically go off the grid.
The US is going to collapse, and your credit score won’t mean a thing.
How about this. I’ve been thinking about the Amish exemption quite a bit. As you know, the Amish have avoided paying social security and Medicare taxes since the respective inception of those programs on religious grounds. It is also likely that there will be a religious exemption for 0bamacare. We also know that there is some type of application process to obtain the exemption. This should be able to provide a loophole. Perhaps we could band together in formal groups and organizations for mutual support. We would need support for making the right claims and for legal challenges.
Even if we lose the initial challenges, we can learn from the experience. Our applications and challenges will do something else. If we get a mass movement, say 10 million people to fill out applications and conduct appeals when necessary we will be able to overburden the IRS and reduce its effectiveness. Initiating this process is our right and it could provide a relatively safe way to grind down the bureaucracy and we might even win a few.
Let’s take this up with our respective Tea Party organizations. Do research, share information, then disseminate to the public.
Never surrender (and don’t listen to the pundits)
Can you send it back as unpayable, because your father is deceased?
What does your insurance coverage provide for the procedure you’re being billed by the hospital for? Maybe your insurance only covers 80%. Pay the bill.
Do the right thing.
I'm in a similar situation and I'm going to hoard my cash and make any government-related creditors hunt me down. The statute of limitations on most debt is four-to-six years and bad debts fall off your credit report after seven years (except for bankruptcy, which takes ten years to fall off.)
I won't be a sucker anymore.
Quit whining, man up and pay the bill. By your own admission, you were taking preventative measures. Your insurance paid $1900 - I’m sure if you read through your policy you OWE the $600.
You knew you would have to shell out some money when you decided to have the tests. Pay your bill.
BTW, I hope the tests results gave you peace of mind, and you found out you are not at risk for a stroke.
Here’s a PS to my above reply. I would call the hospital and ask the billing office why it took them 6 months to send a bill from a procedure that was done last September.
Condolences for the loss of your father. I would pay the bill.
All medical bills are negotiable. You pay what you can and don’t worry about it.
$300 is nothing. If it ever gets to your credit report, which it probably never will, then you can call and negotiate it down. Before it goes to your credit report, a credit agency will call. You can negotiate with them to pay less. Most times, small debts like $300 is handed from one collector to another for years and never makes it to your credit report.
Everybody is making money off of us the producers. We are the suckers.
GlA —
I won’t go into why, but I really understand what you say about hours worked, bills paid and medical bills.
I also understand thoroughly the anger part.
My advise is to pay the $300, (you don’t need to be spending time arguing over that with the hospital) and channel the anger into making a difference in your community. Local politics. Sometimes it doesn’t seem like you can help, but recent events here in my back yard have proven otherwise.
Pay your bill. The insurance companies often won’t pay the full amount billed by the doctor or hospital. In some cases the doctors can bill you for what the insurance won’t pay and in others cases they cannot. It is all very confusing. I blame the insurance companies and their lawyers more than I do the doctors. It all sucks, but that is the world we live in.