Plaintiff challenging healthcare law went bankrupt – with unpaid medical bills

[citizen blues]

39. She will be a charity case

which means everyone else in her community pays for it.

Medical bills from hospitals and clinics have gotten incredibly aggressive with sending stuff to collections. The collection agencies then harass, attach leins, etc. If the debt isn't collected, that loss is passed on to the rest of us through our medical bills.

She may have only had $4500 in actual medical bills, but how much of her mortgage and credit card debt were used to pay off other medical bills? That's a factor most don't take into consideration. The banks who hold that debt are not non-profits. They also pass those losses onto the rest of us in the form of additional fees and higher interest rates.

So we are getting hit double for her medical bills. Most have no clue the true cost of our medical system or the economic devastation it wreaks throughout our economy.

We are the international model for what a health care system should NOT be. Regardless of the problems people perceive with other health care systems, they can always say, "At least we don't have American health care."