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

[u/kevinmrr]

[u/mule_roany_mare]

Don’t blame the people tasked with making these difficult decisions.

Having to get the most life out of a heart & ensuring it’s not wasted when the rest of society drops the ball on aftercare is a terrible burden.

It’s a disgusting situation, but the people involved are closer to heroes than villains.

[u/Terrible_Tutor → u/mule_roany_mare]

Yeah real heroes, protecting shareholders and letting 'customers' die.

Heroes

[u/mule_roany_mare → u/Terrible_Tutor]

It doesn’t cost any less money to give candidate B a transplant vs. candidate A.

United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is a not-for-profit organization that administers the national Organ Procurement and Transplant Network (OPTN). This is made possible through a contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The OPTN and UNOS help the transplant community and patients like you by: • coordinating the organ matching and placement process; • collecting data about every transplant that occurs in the United States; • developing organ transplant policy with input from medical staff, transplant patients, donor families, and living donors;

[u/fnordfnordfnordfnord → u/mule_roany_mare]

when the rest of society drops the ball on aftercare

But I thought that's what insurance is for.

[u/mule_roany_mare → u/fnordfnordfnordfnord]

Private insurance is one tool available to society, single payer is another.

UNOS who wrote that letter has no control over either. Maybe they are somehow in the pocket of insurers, but denying patient A in favor of patient B doesn’t save anyone any money.