I reblogged this last month, tagged it, and said “might as well see if it works.” I used this video as a reference to find all the forms that i needed (which is A LOT, especially if you’re a dependent) and sent them through the mail, not really allowing myself to hope.
dude.
$2,714 of medical debt from my top surgery - gone. im shaking this was such a weight on me for 2 years and it fucking worked. what the fuck.
[VIDEO DESCRIPTION AND TRANSCRIPT:
A tweet from Twitter user Darien (@/DareBear1226) that reads “This could literally save a life. Save a family. My god” with the following video attached.
A TikTok user in blue lighting: “What’s a piece of information that you learned that feels illegal to know?”
(The on-screen captions say the same thing)
TikTok user @/dollarfor (speaking to the camera): “Most hospitals in America are non-profits which means they have to have financial assistance or charity care policies.”
(On-Screen captions: “Most hospitals in America are non-profits. That means they must have a Charity Care Policy.”)
dollarfor: “This is going to sound weird, but what that means is that if, uh, you make under a certain amount of money, the hospital legally has to forgive your medical bills. Let me show you how this works.”
(On-Screen captions: “If you make under a certain amount of money the hospital will legally have to forgive your medical bills.”)
dollarfor (while typing “legacy health financial assistance” into Google search and clicking the top result): “Type in the hospital name with ‘financial assistance’ after it. Should be the top link, let’s check.”
(On-Screen Captions: “Type in the hospital name + financial assistance.”)
dollarfor (while scrolling down the Legacy Health Financial Assistance webpage and clicking on the Financial Assistance Policy link): “What you wanna do is look for financial assistance applications and policies, let’s check the policy.”
dollarfor (while scrolling down the policy document, then highlighting the sliding scale information): “From here what you’re looking for is a sliding scale that- is right here. (quoting document) '0-300% of the federal poverty guidelines’ (end quote), they will forgive 100% of your medical bills.”
(On-Screen Captions: “Go to the site and look for their policy.”)
dollarfor (while displaying a chart showing 2020 Federal Poverty Levels): “So you can see here that 300% of the federal poverty guidelines is 37,470 so if you make under that amount, uh, the hospital will legally forgive your medical bills, and if you’re a larger household you can check it out from here.”
(On-Screen Captions: “Gross Annual Income.”)
dollarfor (speaking to the camera): “If you wanna test it out, I run a non-profit that does this so, uh, DM me and I will actually do it for you, to see if we can crush. those. medical bills.”
(On-Screen Captions: “I crush hospital bills. TEST ME.”)
VIDEO DESCRIPTION AND TRANSCRIPT ENDS]
Added a description/transcript since I couldn’t find one for this post! (Please let me know if there’s any way this description could be improved, it’s my first time writing one and I want any descriptions I write to be as accessible as possible!)
I also went and checked out the dollarfor TikTok account, and according to their latest video, the popularity of the video in this post means that they’ve now received way more claims than they currently have staff to handle. They are looking for more monthly donations so they can hire more staff to help manage all the claims.
Here is the link to the Dollar For Website if you would like to make a donation or submit a claim.
And here is the dollarfor TikTok account if you would like to learn more about what they do and what you can do to help.
I don’t live in the US, but I hope this information will be useful to all of you who do!
This is akin all those hot takes about the 2k bug being an hoax:
“Remember when they told us every computer was going to crash on 1/1/01 and there would be chaos and then nothing happened?”
Yeah, I remember. And I’m sure every programmer and sysadmin that contributed the billion person/hour global effort to prevent it also remembers.
No one talks about acid rain anymore, either. And that’s a very good thing.
see also START and START II, which significantly reduced nuclear stockpiles
International cooperation is actually so effective that most people don’t even notice it happening, and then erroneously believe it can’t solve anything.
Fixing issues before they develop into actual disasters is such an underappreciated thing it hurts at all levels.
We don’t talk about acid rain because there isn’t any more acid rain because when acid rain started happening and we learned that the cause was mainly sulphur oxide and carbon monooxide from car exhausts, countries all over the world made it a law that car companies had to produce cars that produced less exhaust with better effectivenes (burning the fuel all the way to CO2 instead of the halfassed CO) and oil rafineries to remove the sulphur from the gasoline in the first place.
We don’t talk about computers crashing because of the turn of the century, because thousands of programmers worked very hard to write updates and patches for Every Single Program humanity as a whole used back in 1999 and then somehow managed to failtest, distribute, and update every single device and system, be it an online or offline one before the midnight of the 1st january of 2000.
On a much smaller scale, no one ever commenta or notices cleaners and housekeepers doing their job - be it at home or at whole buildings - because they always make sure that there’s nothing to notice. But don’t be fooled - at any point of your life you are one week of them not doing away from swimming in trash and filth with nothing to eat and nothing clean to wear. Only then you would notice.
Now it’s time to do that thing again and make sure that we don’t kill our whole planetary ecosystem within the next century.
hey the op of that crab day post is a transphobe and pro life and shit so on top of it already being a stupid idea its By A Bigot so i am praying people stop reblogging or reposting it
Like.
Hi op! I have wanted to add that there is a SECOND crab day post going around that is ALSO by a transphobic conservative Christian!
you really can’t replicate this experience anywhere else.
OP, there’s another one going around in fancy text by a Christian Pro-lifer too. A third.
Yeah I checked through their blog description… not great tbh
Plaintext: Reblog if you’re comfortable receiving crabs on Crab Day (July 29th) so all your beloved followers know who they can comfortably crab on crab day (July 29th) without feeling nervous about crabbing someone On Crab Day (July 29th).
[ID: Screenshots of bios and posts by users “greater-than-the-sword”, “screwtornadowarningsimsouthern”, and “ohifonlyx33”. Every post states the users’ support of a crab day event and the bios shown reveal the same users identifying as christian and/or conservative. /End ID]
283,000 likes………giant meteor strike the earth rn holy shit. oh my god.
“maybe it’s not your pussy” is such a funny phrase and also correct. People wonder why chores are so hard and it’s like, friends we used to have a whole intergenerational team on this and now Grandma is locked in a beige box. Cooking is hard.
When feeling overwhelmed by adult responsibilities, remember that you can always hide in a blanket fort with snacks and watch cartoons. Embracing your inner child can be a humorous reminder to not take life too seriously all the time and can provide much-needed stress relief.
