Healthcare should NOT depend on GoFundMe! This will infuriate you:

[tblue37]

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/11/heart-transplant-patients-letter-spectrum

Heart Transplant Patient's Letter From Spectrum Health Goes Viral:
Spectrum Health prescribes a GOFundMe effort for Heart Transplant patient

Hedda Martin, 60, survived breast cancer but the medication damaged her heart. Now she has to survive Spectrum Health. The west Michigan-based managed health care organization suggested she should fundraise because they were concerned she didn't have the money for post-surgery medication. Without that there would be no heart transplant. And without that...

Hedda did so, setting up a GoFundMe page with her son, but complaining on her Facebook page and elsewhere of the badly broken health care system in the United States. With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others retweeting her message, Martin was able to get to required funding in a matter of hours.

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[UniteFightBack]

1. I see her address there....not good. I make comments about the broken healthcare system whenever

and wherever I can....which is a lot since I work with a lot of old folks.

[tblue37]

3. Thanks for pointing that out. I removed the image Crooks&Liars included in their article. nt

[lpbk2713]

2. Not a candidate at this time?

Like she has a lot of time to play around with?

[unc70]

4. Isn't chair of Spectrum the husband of Betsy De Vos

[tblue37]

5. I wouldn't be surprised. nt

[Tanuki]

6. Good catch! He's been Chairman of the Board at Spectrum Health since 2010.

I didn't know that till you mentioned it, and looked it up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_DeVos
..."Chairman, Board of Directors, Spectrum Health System, 2010 – present[43][44]".....

[Jarqui]

7. If they just take the money from the insurance companies who are parasites

on the process and the misfortune of others, they could cover most folks

[area51]

8. This is our barbaric system:

We need Medicare for All now!

[StarryNite]

9. Barbaric describes it perfectly.

[rurallib]

12. Amen to that!

[OnlinePoker]

10. Even with single-payer healthcare, we in Canada still need GoFundMe's occasionally

Mostly it's for people needing treatment in other jurisdictions or countries because it is unavailable locally, or the government doesn't fund the treatment (some drugs for instance). It's a sad fact that some provinces fund certain medical treatments and some don't, but if you want to live, you'll pull out all the stops to access it and sometimes that means crowd funding.

[Merlot]

11. Occasionally would be acceptable. In the U.S. it's an everyday occurance

[OnlinePoker]

13. Well, there are literally hundreds on the Canadian GoFundMe website

I don't know how long they stay on there but most seem fairly recent. They are spread across the country, so "occasionally" might not have been the best word.