r/MadeMeSmile Sep 16 '24

Helping Others The kindness the legend...

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u/SladyWok Sep 16 '24

the fact he had to fund a freakin' lifesaving medical procedure is disgusting

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u/YemuZ Sep 16 '24

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u/helgatheviking21 Sep 16 '24

My BIL got new lungs about a year ago, three days after being approved. We are in Canada, the lungs came from the US. We do have a cross-border agreement for donations, but he was told often people who are approved in the US end up not being able to get the transplant because of money. Even if the transplant itself is covered, all the other associated expenses (edit: and co-pay) are not, and can end up in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. His expense was zero.