# Hospital bill i'm unable to pay or finance currently?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hospital-bill-im-unable-to-pay-or-finance-currently/726555>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 30, 2015, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hospital-bill-im-unable-to-pay-or-finance-currently/726555 "2015-07-30T04:04:10Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hospital-bill-im-unable-to-pay-or-finance-currently/726555/21 "2015-08-07T10:30:33Z")

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> [@nearwildheaven](#):
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> Whatever you do, don’t pull any funny stuff WRT to the bill.

How would they find out he’d sprayed seltzer on the bill?

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hospital-bill-im-unable-to-pay-or-finance-currently/726555/22 "2015-08-07T17:18:08Z")

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OP it sounds like you are screwed and will probably do a few years in hospital jail. I did a stint once and it wasn’t so bad. Most of the other inmates are old or feeble so they are easy to run away from when they try to rape you.

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**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2015, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hospital-bill-im-unable-to-pay-or-finance-currently/726555/23 "2015-08-07T18:57:24Z")

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> [@campp](#):
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> When I was young, I had an ER visit that cost $1100. It might as well have been a million dollars. I had NO money.
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> I calmly sat with them and promised to make monthly payments of $20. I did that for two years until I was able to pay it off.
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> Just an idea.

Yeah, I had an ER visit right after I’d been hired full-time after a long-ish period of unemployment after graduate school. I had zilch in the bank.

So I called them up and said "I can’t pay $1200 outright right now, but I do have a decent paying job finally- what are my options? So the person said “How does $100 a month for the next year sound?” Easy as that.

So I paid an even $100 a month for a year, and was done. No interest, no finance charges, etc… I actually could have paid it off after about 2-3 months, but I just let the auto-pay do it’s thing and let my savings build up.

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