Reply #23: So you know "the" case where credit cards [View All]

[walldude]

were used to pay hospital bills. Funny, from what I understand more than half of bankruptcies are due to catastrophic medical bills. While I agree with you that people need to be responsible and live within their means, there were already laws in place to make sure that people who spend recklessly did not sneak out of all their debt.
I personally have a good bit of debt. None of it credit card. All medical. How did I get that debt? Well I haven't seen a raise in 5 years. Health care for my family has tripled in those 5 years from $200 a month to more than $600 a month and that doesn't include co-payments. Get cheaper insurance somewhere else you say? I tried, I have a son with Autism and a wife with Muscular Dystrophy, both pre-existing conditions, no insurance company will even talk to me. So when my kids need to see a doctor or my wife needs pain meds I get to pay out of pocket. All this and sky high gas prices courtesy of the administration that brought us the bankruptcy bill you seem so smugly proud of..