I'm not one to slam public service workers, but th...

I'm not one to slam public service workers, but the business practices of RAA are deplorable.

I was transported from Havana 59 to MCV hospital. That's one mile. And whatever happened in that one mile was worth about $600. Not to mention they don't honor wide-spread insurance or even help out students, unlike MCV -- who wiped my bill due to being a VCU student at the time.

So after that, I contacted them to explore ways to settle this debt and found that I would have to pay the entirety of it, as a student getting through grad school that made me sign a waiver that I would not work over 20 hours. So my hands were kind of tied monetarily. None the less, I set up autopay with them over the phone to chip away as I could.

I get a bill again indicating I had missed several payments and called again. They told me I hadn't paid and that my information had not been saved for auto pay. And I had to give them my bank information YET AGAIN.

Between some life changes, moving, a phone number change, I can image it would be hard to reach me, but my address changes were on file and they were very happy to seize my tax returns (attached to my new address) a year and a half later.

Fast forward about 2 years later, I get a mysterious collections charge on my credit report. Come to find out these dummies took me to collections and that negatively affected my credit score by 100 points. Oh FICO credit score, you look sick.

So, if it's between dying and having the RAA come save you,
maybe consider dying.
Or take an uber.