• @[email protected]
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    -64 months ago

    Why did your hospital visits touch your credit?

    Sounds like you own a house you can’t actually afford.

    • @Dorkyd68
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      I wasn’t able to afford medical insurance at the time and fell behind on arranged payments on 2 ER (emergency room) visits. In America medical debt effects your credit score negatively.

      Sounds like you’re condescending asshole that doesn’t know what they are talking about

      • @TheRagingGeek
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        24 months ago

        I live in America, have medical debt that I generally have ignored, and it never shows up on my credit score, I wonder if making the payment arrangement is what made it show up on the report, because currently I have a 800 credit score.

        • @[email protected]
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          34 months ago

          There’s something they aren’t telling us here. It sounds like they likely put the arranged payments on their credit card.

          • @TheRagingGeek
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            14 months ago

            That would make sense, essentially double dipping the debt. Twice soaked in horrible costs.

      • @[email protected]
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        -34 months ago

        You don’t understand! I put myself in situation where I can’t afford my house, and now I can’t I afford my house. It’s not MY fault.

        • @[email protected]
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          34 months ago

          This is ignorance and/or maliciousness.

          You’re implicitly generating a fantasy to say this person pays too much for their home when that information is only compared to hospital bills. Idk about you, but I don’t have hospital bills every year or even every decade like a monthly mortgage. To “put myself in a situation where I can’t afford my house” may mean just getting cancer or getting diabetes or dealing with another disease or ailment that I wasn’t before.

          So either you don’t know how hospital bills can be financially debilitating. Or you do and you’re blaming them for addressing their health, as if they should just die.

          Which is it?

          • @[email protected]
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            04 months ago

            Maybe I don’t understand, I’ve always had insurance. I thought Americans were required to have insurance.

            But also, they said they didn’t have insurance because they couldn’t afford it. So I think I’ll let my claim that they can’t actually afford their house stand.

            • @[email protected]
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              14 months ago

              Americans are not required to have health insurance. Generally, health insurance is tied to one’s job. Perhaps OP is a business owner and has decided to forego insurance for other things? Idk. And neither do you.

              Also, it’s not like American health insurance is effective in reducing hospital bills to the point of being reasonable. It’s a trope that health insurance is a scam because it’s so bad.

              Also, like all economic decisions, health insurance vs a home is a trade off, one that OP made for whatever reason. It’s not something to blame them for.

              And finally, it sounds like they can afford their home just fine with outfit tradeoffs.