What would you do with such a huge hospital debt?

You're +70 years old, and you have to worry about your medical expenses at this age? What is wrong with this world? Or TBH, what is wrong with the U.S., to be exact? This makes me sick. I am sorry about your situation. :/

As far as I know, about the only thing you can do is in writing (a letter) state you cannot pay the bills above what yoru Medicare/Medicaid plan has reimbursed them (the service provider). Two things will then (likely) happen. One, some part of the bill(s) will be written off by some of the providers and two, you will get offers for payment plans. You can negotiate on how much you can pay each service provider.

Going forward take a very close look at the Medicare plan (other than standard medicare) you have chosen. All of them, every last one of them pay less than what medicare will pay - that's how they make money. I did that and found I got better coverage (much better) with a wider selection of service providers by keeping the standard government medicare program. In fact it has been so much better that after just short of 3 years of cancer treatments, surgeries to remove the tumor, long, complicated and expensive chemo and infection control therapy, two long rehabs and three logn home health program visits, I had to pay out of pocket a total of $357 on over a quarter million dollars of charges.

I don’t know what you can do but I find it appalling that a country as wealthy as the US cannot use its vast resources to provide comprehensive free health care to its citizens. I do hope you manage to resolve the problem.

What would be the consequences if you don't pay it.

Hospitals must take payments that you deem affordable.
You can agree to pay them fifty a month and they must accept it. You then must live up to that arrangement. They cannot charge you interest, penalties or refer you to a dept collector.

Is there any way to rearrange your insurance plan? I'm sorry it does sound stressful.. how about moving to a greek island and forget about them lol

Don't pay. It is easier to just move out of state.

Let's normalize doing illegal things when the legal alternative is pretty much unethical.

Do I have to state that I'm not a financial advisor?

Just ignore it. It's not on your credit reports.

I'm sorry. Medical debt is horrible. 😖
I hope you are able to find a solution.

The choices people and doctors are forced to make about healthcare and treatment options because we don't have a more socialized healthcare and have overpriced everything in healthcare is a tragedy. It's one of many reasons why I hate the Republican party

Sorry to hear that ,, up here we have paid in the past for health insur, but now it is free to us but most likely comes out of taxes ,, also i have my public service insurance ,,so the extras are covered ,,, but things are getting cut here to so we may be in the same boat as you one day ,,

I’m soo sorry. You need help from someone that knows how to deal with these stressful issues.

I have no idea. It's disgusting how insurance plays games like that despite them raking in all the profits. Corporate greed at its finest

Don’t you have Medicare at your age in USA there’s Medicare for 70 years or older