I guess when your ship is sinking it doesn’t help to try and bail it out with a thimble

I guess when your ship is sinking it doesn’t help to try and bail it out with a thimble https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/science/rip-medical-debt.html

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I've had a bunch of medical bills go to collections before and rarely have paid any of them and none are on my credit report. It's such a goofy system

🤷🏼‍♀️ idk how it’s weighted vs other forms of debt etc

A 3.6 point bump.
My credit score goes -10 if I sneeze, c'mon.

it’s so rich to frame this like financial wellbeing is the job of a tiny charity while completely sidestepping the shitshow of the medical industrial complex

imagine if insurance companies were held to the same standard

here's a video i saved that's related because i've paid medical debt i didn't have to before cuz i was unaware of this. hospitals will charge you a million dollars if you let them

A good friend of mine works in financial planning and he said when people get debt relief, the most common response is to rack up more debt.