'Sh**’s wild': Scaling up, doubling down, and buckling in
For five years, we’ve been following the work of Dollar For and its founder Jared Walker, watching them quickly scale up their efforts to help people crush medical debt by tapping into “charity care” — the financial assistance that hospitals are legally required to offer some patients.
Their work represents what a small, scrappy, thoughtful group of people can do. Last year, their tiny staff helped wipe out more than $55 million in medical bills.
As we kick off 2026, we thought it was time to check in again. After all, this will be a year when millions more people will…
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