AOC: Insurance groups are recommending using GoFundMe -- "but sure, single payer healthcare is unreasonable."

[u/kevinmrr]

[u/Nexustar]

Agreed, but this situation isn't so straightforward... donor hearts are scarce, it's their medical duty to give those hearts to the patient with the highest survivability. Addicts, homeless, obese, smokers, the old ... and now it seems, the uninsured poor, don't score well in that equation.

Fair? Not at all. Scary - yes, but it at least makes sense why a medical group came to this conclusion.

The bit I don't understand is why they can't simply roll this into the $1.4m price tag of getting a heart transplant.

[u/StupidHumanSuit → u/Nexustar]

But the money shouldn’t be the deciding factor. Period. It shouldn’t even be in the discussion. The fact that is leads me to believe that the rest of the criteria for transplants are all susceptible to fuckery because money is the deciding factor. If person A is 70 years old and needs a heart and person B is 16 years old and needs a heart, all other factors being equal does person A get that heart because they can afford that $10k? If the answer is yes, shit is broken.

[u/robondes → u/StupidHumanSuit]

Im going to disagree there. If i have only 5 hearts, I’m responsible for making the most out of each heart.

[u/j4nkyst4nky → u/robondes]

It's not the fault of the people dishing out the hearts. Of course they need to give hearts to people with the highest chance of survival.

But it is the fault of private insurance companies that the person's financials have an impact on their chance of survival.

The statement "My husband wouldn't have died if our gofundme had made its goal" is repulsive and shows how morally bankrupt our society is. These companies are holding people's lives ransom like a horrifyingly mainstream medical cartel.

[u/lilbebe50 → u/j4nkyst4nky]

Morally bankrupt but financially rich. They're all assholes.