madmoneymcgee

Hi,

I went ahead and sent in my bill from a kidney stone last year.

Anyway, one dynamic I've noticed is that a lot of hospital have in-house collections arms that look and operate like any sort of regular bill collector but at least when I've used what I know about my state's bill collection practices it turns out none of it applies because I'm actually still dealing with the hospital.

Have you come across this? Conventional wisdom says there is room to negotiate with hospitals or collectors over things like this but my experience says its all kept in house and intentionally left opaque so that there's no process to follow like I could if the debt was actually sold to a collector.

I loved Alif the Unseen and one of my favorite parts was the fractured fairy tales nature of the Alf Yeom. Can I just get one whole Alf Yeom?

If we can't do that can you talk about anything you remember writing about the lessons and morals you came up with writing from the perspective of the nurse?

Neat! That sort of history re: Mr. De La Croix pops up in the story as well iirc.