system
A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
Just wanna let you know that if you explain the situation to the hospital when they (inevitably) call about it, occasionally they’ll just wipe your debt. It’s unfortunate that our system requires hospitals run by mega-corporations to be generous so our citizens don’t go into crippling medical debt, but it is still somewhat nice of them to do.
gpt
Yes, my local hospital called it charity care.  All i had to do was show a bank statement to verify i wasnt lying and they knocked my bill down to a few hundred bucks.  I still had to pay some because i still had an ok income.  That amount was very fair to me.  Probably the same as a deductible if i had insurance