Within two weeks they had run up bills of eight thousand dollars on their credit cards.

You use them like credit cards for a good purpose or to run up bills.

The insurance company, not the doctor, absorbed the cost when patients ran up high medical bills.

He spent 3 months there, running up bills of £30,000, as yet unpaid.

He wrote: "The only exercise we took was running up bills."

As for health insurance, most of you probably won't run up big bills anytime soon.

Imagine a person who goes to the grocery store several times a week, running up bills of from $15 to $30 each time.

Some were healthy, but obtained their insurance through small groups in which other people ran up high medical bills.

A girlfriend had moved out and taken everything, then run up bills.

And healthier employees, he'd come to learn, didn't run up such high medical bills.