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GoFundMe '6 Cancer Fundraising Tips' Webpage Is 'An Abomination,' Says Sanders
'An Abomination': Sanders Decries Reality in Which GoFundMe Has a 'Six Cancer Fundraising Tips' Webpage. Not upset with the crowdfunding service for providing resources to those in desperate need, 2020 presidential candidate lashed out against a system that creates the need for such campaigns in the first place. Common Dreams. Dec. 9, 2019.
A day before a crucial hearing in the U.S. House of Representatives focused on crucial Medicare for All legislation, 2020 Democratic candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders on Monday denounced as an "abomination" the fact that crowdsourcing company GoFundMe has a page on its website offering "Six Cancer Fundraising Tips to Help You Raise More Money" for those suffering from the combined tragedy of a cancer diagnosis and being too poor to afford medical treatment.
Not upset with GoFundMe for providing resources to those in desperate need, Sanders lashed out against a system that creates the need for such campaigns in the first place. "No one should be forced to use GoFundMe for health care," Sanders stated. "We are the richest country on Earth and we are going to take care of our people. Medicare for All now."
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This is an abomination.
No one should be forced to use GoFundMe for health care.
We are the richest country on Earth and we are going to take care of our people.
Medicare for All now.
The GoFundMe resource page referred to by Sanders states, "Crowdfunding has revolutionized the way people fight cancer. Through crowdfunding, it's simple for people to quickly raise money to pay medical bills and find both financial and emotional support from their community. These cancer fundraising tips can help you find financial relief so you can focus on your health."
However—as Sanders suggests in his tweet and single-payer advocates have long argued—the fact that a whole U.S. industry has grown up around the need for crowdfunded healthcare campaigns simply illustrates just how grotesque the nation's for-profit system has become. It's not just GoFundMe. Other platforms like MedStartr, CoFundHealth, and YouCaring—just to name a few—are all built for the same purpose.
On Monday, showing just how crippling and prohibitive medical care remains in the U.S., a new national survey by Gallup revealed that one out of every four Americans says that either they or someone in their family has delayed medical care for a serious illness over the last year...
*In response to Sanders' tweet about GoFundMe, one respondent on the platform offered this single "tip" to make sure people are no longer subjected to the whims of private for-profit insurers or forced to have themselves, their family, or friends wage a crowdfunding campaign for treatment that would otherwise be guaranteed.
"Tip #1," the person wrote: "Get a single payer system so that no one ever has to crowd source healthcare to stay alive in this country ever again."...
More, https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/09/abomination-sanders-decries-reality-which-gofundme-has-six-cancer-fundraising-tips
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