Bankruptcy and medical bills

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You know, I've thought for a long time that our problems were going to be over in March of next year because that is the time at which all of our credit cards are going to be paid off. However, because of my husband's cancer treatment that he had to go through for half of last year and the first month of this year, we keep receiving medical bills that are just putting us deeper and deeper into debt. Of course, there is no way that you can consolidate your medical bills and the hospital that he had to use will try to get their payment from the state (it is a university hospital that is state owned) through income taxes. It feels to me that the only solution that we have to this problem is to file bankruptcy. It isn't because of the fact that I want to get out from under our debt. In fact, I am glad to say that we are actually only five months out from having all of our credit cards paid off. However, my husband didn't ask to be a cancer patient and he definitely didn't ask to have these thousands of dollars of medical bills come to him despite the fact that he has health insurance. Have you ever been through a bankruptcy? Do you think that even considering bankruptcy is taking the coward's way out of things? Is considering filing bankruptcy something that you believe a person should be ashamed of?