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How fucking sad and disgusting is that? Why more Americans are not outraged about it is mind numbing

The plan was announced in September. The governor of NC (among others) did the hard work here.

This is not some righteous move by Atrium. They are trying to get some good PR and you’re giving it to them one way or the other.

Thanks Luigi

And it took putting a light on it to happen. Please don’t stop reporting these issues!

Interesting, I wonder what changed their minds?

THANK YOU LUIGI!!

Started back in Sept!❤️

Probably a CEO directive.

…tax write off…

How long until the media cycle moves on and health insurance companies go back to bankrupting their most unwell customers?

Maybe the Claims Adjuster was the spark Atrium was fearing

My question is why? I don’t think there is an actual cost involved.

Wow

Im so high, i can see heaven…

All the feels 🥰 so happy for them!

Now Kansas needs to give me my Medicaid back.

Thx Luigi

1150 that's it!

"Please don't shoot us we are the good ones."

*Streeting and Labour

Rich leeches on society getting the fear of god put in them. Though it's not god they should fear, it's the people they're exploiting and profiting off of, people who don't need them to exist as middlemen between us and our doctors.

This was pre shooting

This can be done more often. Medical debt ruins people.

I wonder why the about face?

Thanks, Luigi.

#medicareforall and no more medical debt for anybody

Are they afraid do you think?

What else have they been doing to fleece the American people?

That needs to end

I’m glad to come from a country where your only home cannot be taken in any case of debt. This sounds absurd to me… I wish everywhere could be the same.

Did you read the article? Their debt was forgiven in November

Moar

Thank you Jesus, to God goes all the glory!!!!!!!!

man that’s crazy imagine what would happen if you reported on other stuff that is also happening

Tell me that these companies didn’t realize the people are fed up.

Amazing what a little bad press can do to help the victims.

I hope they don't have to pay taxes on the amount forgiven

governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...

“Insurance company, scared to death of being made an example of, does what they should’ve done from the beginning” and this forgives anything? Makes all of the people who died because of their awful service just.. alive again? I live in NC, medical debt is the least of AH’s worries, believe me

A "miracle" a young man sacrifice his future for

The Land of the Free...

How shameful that it takes fear for these companies to choose to do the right & humane thing. The function of health insurance & healthcare shouldn't be to make CEOs rich by letting people die or stealing patients' houses when they can't afford life-saving medical care.

Hmmm. There have been plenty of heart-wrenching stories like this, which didn't make the insurance companies change. I wonder what else happened recently that convinced them?

Sorry to hear that. You are owed something, a government for and by the people.

Mangione proved the craven plutocrats aren't untouchable... #elontionette #plutocratsonnotice #oligarchsfleecingamerica

Thanks Luigi

okay, that's fair. but i'm still relived for the families whose debt is gone. both/and.

I'd have a Luigi shrine in my house

Good job Atrium. I regret to inform you, however, that this still qualifies as delaying and thus your claim for lenience has been denied.

You either believe in what you do, or you cower to threat.

This is what happens when you shine a light on the abuse of this industry.

Luigi found a solution. Im sure there are better ones, but...ya know...modern problems and such...

And it still didnt affect their profits one bit.

Keep the pressure up. Don't let them slide back into their slimy ways.

Well, well, well.

I guess there’s no sense in having a lien on a house that got washed down the river or off the mountain.

direct action gets the goods

Healthcare CEOs when they realize all their money doesn't make them bulletproof...

Did we play that game with him before? He asked "how much to stop hunger" -- people told him a number, then crickets.

Wonder what spurred this???

I am just going to reply to every article about a corporation doing bad things "Who is the CEO?"

CEO of Atrium Health.

puff piece of no substance

Let me guess, they are still going to issue a 1099-C so that these people will be forced to pay taxes on the forgiven amount.

Positive reinforcement, hell yeah, let's get a pavlovian situation going here.

Huh, wonder what made them change their minds

I lost my home bc the hospital refused to do payment plans. I started trying to pay them anyway, but they sent the checks back. 3 years later they came for me. I know now what I should’ve done, but at the time was so overwhelmed, I couldn’t see a path. Waiting in court, I saw ~ 100 ppl like me.

Wow, they forgave debt that they placed? And they get a fat tax write off at the end of the year? So generous.

When a little light is shown in the darkness the rats start scurrying!

Not enough.

Luigi makes news and NBC wants us to know the health insurance companies have been good people since September.

2A at work? The NRA should be proud.

Not enough!

And Anthem suddenly decided to not pursue their proposed policy limiting coverage for surgical anesthesia. Funny how this all works.

Cancel all debt.

They just wrote off bad debt.

Better safe than CEO.

Everybody has a plan until they get shot in the back by a ghost gun

Wonder why

MSM claims heroic status...

The problem with US healthcare is the wrong motives control everything.

And no will to fix it.

And that is the problem. Even though they would benefit themselves, they can't stand the idea that someone black or brown or trans or different will also benefit.

Thank you!

Perhaps Luigi should be Person of the Year???

Atrium Health wrote those debts off years ago as bad debt. No auditor would allow it to remain on the books for 20 years, but sure they took an IRS deduction & they likely paid less tax that year. Nonetheless, they tormented these people for years with liens.

good, this is getting like worse than social medicine. F them

Hmmm…I wonder (“car backfires, perhaps?”) what brought that generosity on??????!

With just one dead CEO? Just imagine how we could right this ship.... I am not advocating murder on any way shape or form.

Happy for those people. But this seems more like a media stunt than a meaningful change. And when the problem is structural, what would it take to get to meaningful change?

The most dangerous person in the world is someone with nothing left to lose. Luigi has led the way. There will be copycats as the economy nose dives.

Lol, see, end a few of the greed head psychos and the others will back off

Wonder why such generosity all of a sudden? PR is strong in them.

Am surprised pple are quiet about this

That is insane.... holy hell.

At urgent care you'd probably have paid $75 for that. With a child you can't risk that though. You can't know what's wrong beforehand. For me - unless I'm clearly at death's door I won't go to the hospital anymore. I drag myself to an urgent care first and see if they can't patch me up.

It's completly insane. My husband and I pay 24k a year in health insurance premiums and we don't dare to go to a hospital.