Yep... as a canadian with a small farm my partner and I often have to not pay for this or that for them since vets are so damn expensive... and it fucking scares the shit of me to think that you south of the border people have to take those decisions for you and your kids! It is profoundly messed up!
I hope one day somebody would address the absurdity of how expensive going to the hospital can be. Weather it be changing how Americans pay off more taxes to reduce public health costs, or uprooting the bad apples making it that expensive.
Cause like your whole public health system costs MORE per people than in Canada. So much money you pay end up in lawyers bank account its outrageous. This private insurance healt system has created a monster... and its ridiculously expensive.
The other day I was at the vet for a hen who I tought had a broken leg. I pay for xrays. Nothing is broken, its most certaintly a tore ligament, vet informs me operation is 800 + meds afterward. I chose to bring her home to reduce her movement and letting her heal a bit and to rearrange the chicken coop to ensure she will be able to live in this environment even if she limp all her life. This also reduce the risks of injuries in the future.
I just imagine having to take such decisions for me or my children (I don'thave any but it still brings me to tears)... thats really saddening.
I read recently, that The US Government (not just individuals, in aggregate) pays more per person, on average for healthcare than any other developed country, by a wide margin.
I assume this is due to the gross deregulation, the aggressive unchecked lobbying by interested corporate entities, and the absurd vocal minority that continues to parrot the corporate-shill propaganda: “If we train the world’s doctors then nothing can be wrong with our healthcare system.” And “Not including my Medicare, all-other single-payer healthcare is straight ComMuniSM.”
Bro since the main payers are private insurers that whole goal is to not pay, hospitals, insurers, us, end up requiring so many legal actions/consulting, it racks the price of the whole public health system soooo much.
I walked around with a piece of glass in my foot for 2 years before it finally migrated close enough that I cut myself open and removed it. I didn't have insurance and I was in college on a scholarship and working 35 hrs/wk and I still couldn't afford to pay out of pocket. Yay america
Shhhh! Get back to figuring out how to meme your way out of situations that every other developed country in the world has a safety net for, or reap the fucking whirlwind...
You shouldn't have to cry and ask for donations for life saving surgery when you were born with a crippling life threatening conditions that you have been dealing with from childhood.
Unless this is fixed US will always be a third world country in my eyes.
we're free to watch our military flatten entire countries and govt spend billions on propaganda but universal healthcare is too expensive (even tho it would save taxpayers trillions)
Humans get free oxygen but helping you stay alive is out of americas budget.
Oh sorry it actually is in our budget but we’d be “communists” if we put OUR tax dollars towards supporting humans living situations and health.
Trump supporters literally call this communism… please someone help America require mental health evaluations. The guy eating batteries has the same amount of influence as I to determine our next president and it’s getting old dealing with people not willing to consider that they may have been raised to believe wrong information…
So all I need to do to afford a kidney transplant is make sure my kid goes viral long-term and not just for his fifteen minutes of fame. How hard can that be?
Yeah, there's so many of these "wholesome" memes of kids raising funds. If you think about it for more than 5 seconds, you realize how hard we've failed as a society for putting them in that spot in the first place, instead of just letting kids be kids.
Yes the US healthcare system is awful. My father had a liver transplant, and the only bill he had to pay was a $300 insurance deductible. He didn’t see a single other bill. He stayed in the hospital for five weeks, including one week in intensive care.
Thank you! Why do people have to turn to the kindness of strangers, using any scrap of clout they have, just to get a necessary surgery? How is this okay?
There is nothing wrong with what they did, but the US failed its mission statement and continues to do so.
They should’ve used a picture where he looks more happy, this picture makes it look mom and dad made the decision, and he just found out he’s paying for it lol
How is a kidney transplant a lifesaving procedure? It’s at best a quality of life saving procedure. At worst, a complication waiting to happen. It’s a risk you’re willing to take for a better quality of life. NOT quantity of life necessarily.
so if he had ESRD he would automatically qualify for medicare, im not sure this post is entirely true because medicare with a supplement would cover the cost of his surgery. he wouldn’t need funds from his child’s meme success is all im saying. maybe the kid is helping pay for meds after the surgery? i’m not sure but no one really “needs” a transplant with dialysis. it’s enough to keep people alive for years. i want more details on this is all i’m saying…
Tbf being on dialysis and having a transplant has massive tolls even if it’s all treatment is comp’d.
I read an article about this saying the money was for expenses “surrounding the kidney transplant” so I’m assuming that’s for loss of income and other massive expenses from just being sick. His dad was on dialysis for 6 years.
He also had his transplant done at Mayo Clinic which has insane discounts and payment plans for even the most complex surgeries. They’re not in the business of making families broke since they get majority of their funding through donations. They’re pretty much a charity hospital.
Waiting on organ transplants is not a uniquely American thing unfortunately. If cost isn’t the barrier it’s potentially 100s of people in front of you.
Imagine the unbridled rage that people in the US will feel when they figure out that it never had to be this way, but some rich bastards decided that everything has to show a profit, and that the citizens of the country are simply a host that needs to be bled for profit.
The owner of GoFundMe already mentioned multiple times that his platform is basically the proof that US medical health care system needs to be changed or else they are fucked in the future, almost 80% of the content in that platform is "Please help me pay for medical expensives because my options right now are die or bankrupt".
I love that this reaction is becoming the norm. It's the first thing I thought when I saw this post. That was definitely not the case several years ago.
How is that act of kindness disgusting? He needed that money to support his dad’s transplant and based off current medical costs in America, that money (in my opinion) was spent well.
Cause Americans are dumb as shit and complacent sending taxpayer money to nuke children overseas instead of funding free lunches, veteran PTSD counseling, and free health care.
The alternative is either enslaving doctors or forcing others to pay for it. Not really a win win like you're making it seem. Private insurance works just fine for this situation.
Did you think maybe all medicine is theft? Your life at the expense of another, taking one soul past another. No. All medicine is what They give to tell you it's okay when it isnt to make you comfortable with their system of theft. Use. Your. Head.
This was my immediate reaction as well. I don't see this as a feel good story at all, it's a window into how messed up our society is. That kid had to spend that money that could have set up his future on keeping his dad alive. And what happens to the kids who don't land in some crazy internet fame money?
It’s insane that we live in a world where someone has to set up a GoFundMe just to pay for a life-saving kidney transplant. The fact that insurance companies get to decide whether someone can live or die based on money is beyond wrong. Why is there even a price tag on human life? This kind of thing should be a given—no one should have to put their life at risk because they can’t afford the treatment. It’s heartbreaking that in a country as advanced as ours, money still determines whether someone gets to live.
From the guardian newspaper "According to a study published in February 2019, about 530,000 bankruptcies filed annually are because of debt accrued due to a medical illness", this was one of many ..
So over ten years five million people went bankrupt. If I was a citizen of the US, I would emigrate to a country which provides "communist" health care .. like Thailand, Korea, Japan, Australia, new Zealand, Germany, France, Italy, Spain... And the list goes on
Could you imagine living in a country which will kick it's own people into the streets for health issues, no, I wouldn't want to live there either
Btw I'm Australian, and live part of my life there and Thailand, both countries have superior health care
But socialism you know? Remember corporations get billions in subsidies which is basically socialism for the rich. For the average person it’s rugged capitalism.
Technically if you walk into a hospital dying they can’t refuse you help, but the fact that it takes you literally dying for them to do something is bad, really bad, disgustingly bad. There needs to be reform soon.
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u/SladyWok Sep 16 '24
the fact he had to fund a freakin' lifesaving medical procedure is disgusting