"I work in the finance department at the best hospital in the world, and to be honest with you, this isn't true at allWord to the wise, medical debt doesn't affect your credit score, so just DON'T PAY.  We send a collection agency after you, but after a few months its just written off and there are no consequences at all for the people who owe us money. The hospital isn't going to sue you." What are you talking about?  The hospital may not sue, but once your bill is turned over to a collection agency, they hound you to death and then report you to a credit agency, thus ruining your credit. "Be careful of fear mongering and who you trust.  activistpost.com sounds like its run by a bunch a retarded liberal commies who don't know their head from their ass." Activistpost has been around for a long time.  Their reporting is solid.    "Why would this be a bad thing if hospitals we're doing this? Healthcare is not a right. Goods and services cannot be a right. You are not owed healthcare and you do not automatically deserve healthcare. If you did, than everyone who works in healthcare would be your slave." Nice slide.  No one said healthcare is a right.  It's the invasion of privacy AND the automatic enrolling into a "payment" plan.  Who benefits from a payment plan?  What are the terms that you didn't agree to?  Not to mention, if I had to be hospitalized for some reason and I didn't (I don't) have any money...I have family that would write a check to cover costs.  But that doesn't matter because I wouldn't be treated anyway based on my lack of "ability" to pay (and assuming my negatory to their auto-enroll payment plan).  G  44f1  et it?