Broken fucking country.

AND!!!! It’s success is basically derived from those with a little extra giving to those who don’t almost like a, wait for it………. Tax funded government health care plan.

Tax the rich and treat your poor.

GoFundMe isnt health insurance, it’s ‘please don’t let me die’ insurance. The system is beyond broken. Mr. CEO PLEASE BE CAREFULL

Is it still 1 in 3 if you take into account the size of medical bill campaigns?

I bet it’s a lot worse than that.

I saw the video of the guy saving some kids in the structure fire and was…where is his go fund me? He was burnt up. Heros should not pay medical bills while saving children. Maybe he is well insured. ‘merica The sad part was it was the first thing to go through my head.

[Relevant ](https://youtu.be/tIsXEkR5OVs?si=eQpLYG-kyTzj9uLP)

BURN THIS SYSTEM DOWN

The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly like it was designed to. The system works just fine and THAT’S the problem.

I’m so thankful I don’t live in the USA

The system is working as intended, nothing broken about it.

Imagine your Gofundme page hitting $30k and then they decide to keep the money because the CEO doesn’t like what you’re spending it on.

Can we add the TT Creator fund to this? I see parents with babies in the NICU going LIVE to get $$ because of the hundreds of thousands of dollars that are NOT being covered and/or the at home care that is needed that the insurance companies won’t pay for. It’s heart breaking, that we in the US have to crowd source via social media pleas for help just to get life saving care. In the US 66% of the bankruptcies files are for medical debt.

The list of things that are broken as the US downgrades to 3rd world levels of corruption…
    Deparment of Justice
    FCC
    Public education 
    FBI and law enforcement 
   The federal court system all the way to The Supreme Court
     The entire Legislative Branch
     The entire 4th estate

I heard an interview of the CEO of gofund me. He said he grappled with not Allowing medical posts on his platform because it’s not what it was supposed to be for. It was intended for like start ups. Then he mentioned quickly that he didn’t want to make profit off people needing medical care but if he turned it off now people wouldn’t get the help they needed and he wouldn’t make enough to keep it afloat. I don’t know the dude or if he is a good guy or not but he did mention it which is something. I couldn’t find the video but here’s an article.

https://www.hfma.org/finance-and-business-strategy/healthcare-business-trends/gofundme-helps-some-pay-for-healthcare-but-its-an-awful-solution/

The original concept of insurance was to pay a small amount into a large risk pool so that when someone needed it, they could use the funds for their medical expenses. The problem is that now the risk pools are smaller and a significant amount of what is paid into insurance goes toward corporate profit. In theory, something like GFM could serve as a means to recreate what insurance was originally made for. If only there was a non-profit insurance company that we could select.

How can we fix the GoFundMe system?

Remember when everybody was freaking out about how Obamacare was going to introduce “death panels” where a bunch of strangers would get to decide if you were worth treating or not?

I’m honestly convinced that GoFundMe was started by health insurance companies so they can deny more claims and let other people pay for procedures.

How old is this? Gravel institute died years ago

I get the idea of this tweet but I hate that it’s incorrect. GoFundMe isn’t “insurance” since it doesn’t insure anything, it’s straight up asking for money. Insurance includes of pool of insured, not a single individual, making it more stable.

Anyway, my point is that GoFundMe is significantly more dire than “insurance”, and the lack of society insuring us as people at all is the whole issue.