Hey there, if you've listened to this show, you've probably heard me talk a lot about charity care.

Because something like 60% of people might qualify to have their hospital bills reduced or forgiven.

But nothing like 60% of people getting hospital bills

actually get that kind of help through charity care,

not even close.

Millions of people now have declared bankruptcy over medical bills that they legally didn't even have to pay if they knew about this.

And that's like, that should upset people.

That is Jared Walker.

He and his nonprofit Dollar Forb been helping people

get charity care for years and spreading the word on Tik-Toc and Instagram.

If you make under a certain amount of money, the hospital legally has to forgive your medical bills. I've learned a

ton from them and a survey they ran last year found that more than half of patients

who might benefit from charity care never even heard of. And lots of others were confused or even embarrassed.

People like Casey, who we met last year. I didn't know where to go and like, it

seems so weird asking for charity.

Which raises a question.

How exactly are hospitals telling you and me about charity care?

You know, fulfilling their legal obligation to let us know we just

might qualify to have our medical bill forgiven.

Dollar Four is research suggests a lot of hospitals play this information a little close to the best.

So I want to look at a lot of hospital bills.

See what they say about charity care versus say starting a payment plan. I want to see what's in bold

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