The grieving family should never have to deal with billing errors, but it was a billing error, not a policy decision. As numerous people pointed out on the Twitter thread, the hospital should have immediately switched over to billing the donor network for all charges related to keeping the body on life support.
Somewhere in that chain of automated accounting mistakes, a real person should have stepped in to the process. But nope, didn't happen.
This is how the thread ends:
Possibly UCLA wrote it off because they'd submitted the claims in error, and should have billed someone else, but that's not what she says happened. I know what someone in one of the replies says should have happened, and probably they're correct, but it didn't in this case, nor in a couple of other cases, at least according to other replies.
Accounting error or not, to those of us who are, by a happy accident of birth, used to public health care as of right, it seems grotesque that anyone other than another hospital should receive the bill, or that anyone other than the taxpayer would cover it.