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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.")
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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!
So, if you don't know about Kahn Academy its an online education platform that provides free courses in a whole lot of subjects. I've personally used it for computer science and math. The classes they have really run the gamut
They need donations (they're a 501 nonprofit) to help them keep operating and grow. They're an invaluable source of learning for pretty much anyone, particularly those without the financial and/or social resources to access other options. Using it helped me test into higher levels at my CC and saved me about two years in tuition for classes that I didn't need and wouldn't have helped toward my degree. If you've got the ability consider throwing them some scratch or at least reblog to keep a great organization going.
Thank you very much for sharing
I am ashamed to ask you for help, but I have to. Can you donate to save our lives?
I'm unable to donate, but here's the link to Falestine's Gofundme for anyone who can!
I hope you and your loved ones can get the help you need and I'm very sorry for all you are going through
I know I don't have a ton of followers or anything, but please share this post if you see it!
PLEASE READ AND SHARE IF YOU CAN!!!
Hello everyone who might be reading me right now. I hope I'm not bothering you, and I really don't like to be doing this, but. I've come to ask for help so I can escape my abusive household.
The following doc contains all the details about the abuse I’ve been enduring all these years.
If you can support me, here’s the pages where you can do it: GoFundMe and Ko-Fi.
And if you can’t support me economically, please boost! That would help me so so much!
Thank you for your time. Take care. 💜