My counter tells me that I have just passed 20,000 followers here on Mastodon. Thank you for following me here, I hope I am making your Mastodon experience better. To celebrate this Round Number Milestone, I have donated $200 to RIP Medical Debt, which buys and then pays off medical debt in the US, for pennies on the dollar. $200 pays off $20K in medical debt, so that's $1 of medical debt wiped out for each of my followers here. It's a good way for me to say "thank you."

https://ripmedicaldebt.org/

Homepage - RIP Medical Debt

RIP Medical Debt makes it easy for donors to make an impactful difference in the lives of those struggling with medical debt.

RIP Medical Debt
@scalzi
It is inconceivable that the concept of "medical debt" exists, in a developed (mostly) country.