re: Will an unpaid hospital bill hurt my credit score?

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You don't like people assuming you wanted a service that cost money, without them actually asking you if you'd like that service?

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He went to the hospital, they didn't show up at his house with an x ray machine and x ray him against his will.

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As i said before, nurses and doctors operate as if everything is free so they give you shite and do shite without telling you it's costs and then hit you with a bill after.
If you had told me this test was going to cost money outside of my copay, or this x-ray would be extra, maybe i wouldn't have done it. Let me decide what happens based on financial decisions, don't just assume i want to do everything you recommend regardless of costs.

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No one made you. If it's not life threatening people will clear it with their insurance and then go back once they've confirmed its covered. This happens literally daily. You are just lazy and dumb and want someone to do everything for you.

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Fake your death.

The debt will go away

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Nope

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There is absolutely no chance that the hospital didn't attempt to collect this debt from you multiple times before turning it over to a debt collector.

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This is also a very true statement. You should get about 3 notifications before being sold off.

These people will ruin your credit and harass you at work until you pay it off. They will continually remind the credit agencies every month until its paid off completely.

At this point does ANYONE believe that the OP has a job that pays $7-10K a month?

I told you I simply forgot to pay it. Jesus christ to some of you people it's amazing how you cant make a mistake here and there.

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I told you I simply forgot to pay it. Jesus christ to some of you people it's amazing how you cant make a mistake here and there.

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Multiple times? You serious, Clark?

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I told you I simply forgot to pay it.

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5 times? Because they called you and mailed you an invoice at least that many times.

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I told you I simply forgot to pay it. Jesus christ to some of you people it's amazing how you cant make a mistake here and there.

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You didn't just "forget to pay it" liar and we all know this is true, because you probably received no less than 6 invoices before the hospital billing department just said "frick it" and sold your debt off to a collections agency.

You're a deadbeat.

Also, if you made $7-10K a month you would simply hand the hospital your debit card and pay the $70 when you originally received the bill and dealt with your insurance company at a later date. It's like were talking about tens of thousands of dollars here.

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You are just lazy and dumb and want someone to do everything for you.

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I'm lazy and dumb b/c i want the person that's rendering a service to me to tell me how much it's going to costs before i do it? They aren't always up front about what they are about to do will costs, and just assume you will do it, so they might as well be showing up at my house with the x-ray machine, or coming cut my grass.

I'm not talking about thousand dollar things here. This is the $70 type crap the OP is describing.

I got charged $120 for crutches a while back, which is outrageous for a pair of cheap wooden crutches. I told them i didn't want them, and they insisted i take them, practically begged me, and i said no repeatedly. Walking out the clinic with my buddy helping me walk (bad sprained ankle) and they give me the crutches and say "just take them". Finally said whatever and took them. Then get a bill for $120 a few weeks later. I didn't want the crutches when i assumed they were free, and at no point did they mention they would cost anything extra outside my copay.
fast forward a few years, same issue, sprained ankle, and doctor recommends a walking boot. Tells me you can get it from us but it'll cost x amount of dollars, or you can go to this store and get one for much cheaper. That's how that's supposed to work.

Most of our appointments, we are given an estimate on how much we can expect to pay for the oncoming visit. My youngest is 5, and we've hit our maximum out of pocket every year but 1 he's been born.

It's the little doctor visits where they just render a service without telling you the costs, then send you that small bill for it, that's the ones that piss me off and what i'm talking about here.