Cancel one million.
Over half of Americans say they’ve skipped care they needed because they couldn’t afford it. Medical debt is the number one cause of personal bankruptcy in this country — not because people are reckless with money, but because a single ambulance ride, a week in the ICU, or a cancer diagnosis can outprice a family’s entire life savings, even with insurance.
It doesn’t have to be like this, in fact, we are the only wealthy country that allows this.
Our legislators have the power to fix the systems that let hospitals and collectors bleed people dry for the crime of getting sick.
Many Christians focus on personal charity, and neglect to confront the unjust systems that are bleeding people dry. But it’s not enough to struggle for systemic change—while we wait, people are still getting collection letters, watching their credit collapse, and rationing insulin.
We have to take care of us.
I’m partnering with Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit that buys bundled medical debt from hospitals and collectors for pennies on the dollar — the same debt that gets sold off once someone can’t pay — and cancels it outright. No fine print, no catch. The people whose debt gets forgiven don’t apply, don’t sign anything, and don’t even know it’s coming until a letter shows up saying their debt GONE.
We’re raising money nationally, and once we hit our goal, we’ll direct it to a community carrying some of the heaviest medical debt burden in the country — wherever the need is greatest.
Our goal is $10,000. Because of how debt-buying works, every dollar you give cancels about $100 in medical debt. That means a $10,000 campaign wipes out $1,000,000 owed by families who did nothing wrong except get sick in a country that refuses to take care of them.
Nobody is coming to save us. Mutual aid is our best medicine.
