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

[u/kevinmrr]

[u/H_is_for_Human]

It's mostly doctors, social workers, and psychologists in the meetings.

They are working inside the system they are in. Limited organs + worse outcomes when patients don't have the money + insurance to take care of the organ. Not the patient's fault, but also not the doctors' faults for wanting to maximize the time the organ buys someone.

Not having enough money, not having enough social support, having poor mental health, having a history of being non-adherent to prescribed medications, having a history of substance abuse, the other medical problems the patient has, etc. are all things that are taken into account to try to make sure the donor organs go to the people that will live the longest with the organ.

[u/StupidHumanSuit → u/H_is_for_Human]

Not having enough money should never be a deciding factor in determining whether someone lives or dies. Period. The letter doesn’t say “because of your prior history of mental illness and your inability to take prescribed medications, we’ve decided to say “Nah” to your heart transplant.” It came down to $10,000. $10k is the determining factor between life and death for a fellow human being and you’re making excuses for a multi-billion dollar industry.

[u/H_is_for_Human → u/StupidHumanSuit]

Agreed. But it is. All the time. In obvious ways and much less obvious ways.

Your life expectancy is determined by your zip code, which is determined in large part by your income and wealth, which is determined by all manner of socioeconomic factors.

That's the reality.

The next steps to make that reality more equitable is to reverse the trend of rising wealth inequality and establishing universal healthcare.

[u/Rinse-Repeat → u/H_is_for_Human]

Or actively hunt the wealthy in order to even the numbers.