I'd spent three nights and four days sick in Liberia when the US State Department got involved. They have the ability to get one of the very few planes that exist in the world to carry you back for medical treatment if you're a US citizen. It costs $150,000. They don't ask you for that up front. And I very foolishly didn't check if my insurance covers Ebola. It turns out it didn't.
NBC has agreed to help me pay the debt from my treatment and take care of me as someone who is working with them. That is such overwhelming good fortune, to not be saddled with this unpayable debt for the rest of my life.