🚨🗣 Most medical debt in the U.S. can be forgiven immediately.
The health care industry doesn’t want you to know this, but the process is straightforward and we explain exactly how you can do it today.
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.@DollarFor_ has helped cancel up to $5 million of medical debt for people across the country by advocating for patients and enforcing hospitals’ charity care policies. Here’s how they do it ⤵️
Most hospitals are non-profits. That means that they are mandated to prove community benefit and provide financial assistance and charity care policies.
If you make under ~400% of the federally poverty line, they legally have to forgive your medical bills.
To apply or see if you qualify, just google the hospital name and “financial assistance policy.”
Complete the application, provide a statement of income, and send it off to the hospital.
This week, nearly 2000 nurses in New England's largest hospital will wrap up their first union election in over two decades.
The hospital has been around since 1874. It has zero unionized workers.
Executives are trying to keep it that way.
Maine Medical's nurses have been on the frontlines of the pandemic since day one and want a voice at work.
They're burnt out, underpaid, and don't have enough PPE. Plus, they say the hospital's staffing algorithm also leads to poorer patient care. pressherald.com/2021/03/23/mai…
MaineHealth, which runs the hospital, hired expensive consultants to trap nurses in mandatory anti-union meetings.
These consultants are some of the most notorious union-busters in the country. They've worked for everyone—including Donald Trump. medium.com/@MatthewTHunt/…
NEWS: Upset over our reporting, @kroger is lashing out. It appears to be paying a corporate front group to run a propaganda campaign called “Imperfect Union.”
This launched the same week as Kroger closed 4 stores because it said it couldn’t afford $4/hr hero pay for workers.
The campaign is run by the Center for Individual Freedom, a corporate lobbying group founded by ex-tobacco industry executives to fight against smoking laws.
Its board chair is Tony Fabrizio, Jr., who was Donald Trump's pollster in 2016.
CFIF has lobbied against prescription drug price controls, net neutrality, and dark money disclosures.
It lobbied for the Dakota Access & Keystone XL pipelines and the Comcast/Time Warner mega-merger.
Bill Gates opposes sharing COVID vaccine patents with less wealthy nations so they can manufacture it themselves.
But epidemiologists and public health experts disagree. “Throttling vaccine production globally by [not sharing the patents] is a scandal that affects us all.”
President Biden will send up to 60 million doses of vaccine to India. But, India has 1.3 billion people.
They need hundreds of millions more doses. They have factories that can make vaccines.
We just need to let them use the patents.
Global health groups said the Biden administration's commitment was not nearly big enough to deal with the rising caseload worldwide.
“Sixty million doses — that’s showing up to a four-alarm fire with an eyedropper full of water,” said Asia Russell of @HealthGAP.
UPDATE: Ohio Republicans have released the voter suppression bill that we first reported last week:
- Requires *two forms of ID* to request mail ballot online
- Bans prepaid postage on ballots, forcing people to pay to vote
- Restricts ballot drop boxes to 1 per county
- Bans in-person voting on Monday before election day, one of the most popular early voting days
- Makes volunteer ballot collection a crime classified as "election fraud"
- Cuts the time available to request an absentee mail ballot
Ohio already has restrictive voting laws and is one of the most gerrymandered states.
It has purged 2 million voters since 2012 & significantly depressed minority turnout.
This bill further targets low-income voters, young people & people of color.
NURSES ON STRIKE: @HospitalNurses have served heroically on the front lines of the COVID pandemic.
But Community Health Services, a huge for-profit corporation that owns the rural, community hospital, has treated hospital workers like they are expendable.