Thread by @DrEricDing

💡DID YOU KNOW—non-profit hospitals in the US legally have to forgive your medical bills if you are too poor to pay.

Please share.

(Contact: @Dollarfor_)

2) Please keep your DMs open if you share a story and asking for a DM assistance from @Dollarfor_

https://twitter.com/dollarfor_/status/1350923196527067139

3) They are a real nonprofit. dollarfor.org

Health is a human right. Right for your right to live.

4) America has a sickness worse than an illness itself ... and it’s the impossibly expensive cost of medical care. Not just hospital costs, but also prescription medications like insulin. I’ve been fighting to change this for years.

https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1349405447988588545

5) The key thing is to be under 300% of federal poverty levels to qualify under some hospital’s charity program guidelines.

It’s tedious to apply for it. If only we had a universal healthcare program like a Medicare for All.

6) As health economists, my wife @andreafeigl1 & I studied factors of UHC attainment of #MedicareForAll.

Keys to country M4A success:

📌Not dictatorship—10x
📌Proportional rep elections—2.8x
📌Less ethnic fractionalization—2x
📌Less wealth inequality
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