guess who got served and has to try to figure out how to get a hospital to not sue them for 10k. hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah\ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah

kill me.

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blowbelow wrote on July 12, 2022 at 4:30 PM

Sending virtual support! <3

Haruki wrote on July 12, 2022 at 5:16 PM

civ can't end fast enough

monday wrote on July 12, 2022 at 4:43 PM

Dang, hope you can dodge this somehow

ziq wrote on July 12, 2022 at 4:54 PM

Oh no :(

fortmis wrote on July 12, 2022 at 4:21 PM

:O ! What happened?

tuesday OP wrote on July 12, 2022 at 5:40 PM

I gambled and ignored my hospital bill (as I have every other medical bill I've been sent in my life - my credit score is like 7 lol) and rather than send me to collections they decided to sue. it was bound to happen eventually I guess.

fortmis wrote on July 12, 2022 at 6:36 PM

ayeeeee that hurts. what are your options?

tuesday OP wrote on July 12, 2022 at 6:42 PM (edited on July 12, 2022 at 6:42 PM)

be enough of a Karen and leverage my knowledge of legal procedures to hopefully make it too annoying to actually bother with the suit.

or suck it up and let the hospital garnish up to 25% of any paychecks I may get to pay off the principal and all interest that accrues in the interim.

fortmis wrote on July 12, 2022 at 7:06 PM

never thought i would say this but.... may your inner karen prevail!!!!!! team karen!

fortmis wrote on July 12, 2022 at 6:38 PM

wish i was a hacker so i could just erase this kind of thing from tHe SyStEmS. bureaucracy is so entangled with computers and so laden with B.S., i doubt anyone would notice if it just disappeared....

asterism wrote on July 12, 2022 at 5:51 PM

Reminds me of this stand up bit. Maybe it will give you a laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH4sD-FzqlM

tuesday OP wrote on July 12, 2022 at 6:34 PM

ahaha this is good. that's basically the way I've been living my life.

though I will say that being served papers depends on the state you live in. in my state you can do a post and tack service which just means they can leave the summons at your legal address or at your place of work.

asterism wrote on July 12, 2022 at 5:36 PM

and I was going to whine about overdraft fees today ... damn that sounds stressful.

Super curious how one gets sued by hospital ngl.

I hope you can find a not terrible resolution.

tuesday OP wrote on July 12, 2022 at 5:45 PM

don't pay your bill. they have the option of selling your debt to a collection agency or to sue you in small claims. this time they decided to try to sue.

asterism wrote on July 12, 2022 at 5:53 PM

Ah that sucks.

lettuceLeafer wrote on July 12, 2022 at 9:10 PM

If it makes u feel better the city has decided they are appalled that on the street filled with abandonded buildings that I have a house with boarded up windows, broken gutters and a concrete porch with cracks in it. So in about 5 months they are going to start finding me shit tons of money and I"m so busy I havn't had time to do my plan to avoid paying all that shit. So we both can have the nagging annoyance of having money tried to get shaken out of us in the near future together. Maybe we can avoid thinking about it together too lol.

tuesday OP wrote on July 12, 2022 at 11:54 PM

I have a friend in KC who got a land bank house too and it's been a fucking nightmare for x, like the amount of ways they fuck with x is really frustrating, like things that were wrong with the property, that were the fault of the city were somehow x's responsibility to repair, even though x literally cannot because it involves doing things with city property (like the plumping going out to the sewage line).

praxis_makes_perfect wrote on July 15, 2022 at 7:03 AM

I have never paid a medical bill. Somehow nothing has yet happened but I’ve always wondered what could. Sorry you’re going through this. Literally, for the last 12 years, my (then new) family started accumulating bills, and right out of the gate it was like, “it’s literally impossible to repay this.” I wasn’t even particularly poorly paid at the time, but there’s no way I was paying a $3000 ambulance fee (an ambulance that the hospital mandated) instead of… um eating? I’ve never not been paycheck to paycheck so yeah, holy christ I’m in so much medical debt. Like, sorry for trying to stay alive in your capitalist prison of horrors beyond my comprehension. Trust me, we both wish I were dead.

tuesday OP wrote on July 15, 2022 at 7:26 AM

it's a constant gamble.

I'm at least glad we've gotten rid of debtor's prison.