Quote Originally Posted by Sasquatch
you can pay five bucks a month if you want, and as long as you're paying it, you're fine (and even if you don't, medical bills do not go on your credit record)
False. Medicaid failed to pay my dad's hospitalization bills, and my credit was hit and plummeted as a result. A mistake to charge the wrong member of my family, but a credit rating was still hit for not paying. It took over a year to get it settled with Medicaid and another year to get the negative hits off my credit report.

My brother's credit is total shit for going through cancer treatments for the past few years and getting hospital bills tacked onto his credit rating, even though a lot were covered by different organizations, the bills he had to pay he couldn't afford, and his credit now suffers as a result.