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Originally Posted by IndigoRose
You definitely need to hit the ER and let them treat you because you don't know for sure what this is. Most of them will bill you later and you can always go through the process of having them write it off. Legally, with or without insurance, they MUST treat you. It's better to be safe than dead, trust me.
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If for some reason they won't write it off (although if you are low income they usually will), then you can always just make small payments...I had a huge bill at one time (over $20,000) and I sent in $10 a month...it was all I could afford at the time. They tried sending it to collections, but when I showed the collections agency proof that I'd been paying every month, they sent it back to the hospital because a judge would throw it out of court because I was making a "good faith effort" to pay it off. I don't want you to suffer more than you already are...please go in (pretty please?).
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