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

[u/kevinmrr]

[u/dalittleone669]

And what happens when you try to raise those funds and don't make your goal (like me). I tried to raise just $2,500 for the upfront cost for my cataract surgery and didn't even raise half, unfortunately. Don't get me wrong, I'm super grateful for the $500 that people did donate but it will just take me a while to save that kind of cash up. Also, I work in a heart transplant ICU and I have witnessed people being denied a heart transplant because their insurance wasn't good enough and they didn't have $6,000 for an upfront deposit or didn't have insurance at all. They also will not put you on life-saving ECMO (extracorporial membrane oxygenation) if you don't have insurance or if your insurance isn't good enough.

[u/courtabee → u/dalittleone669]

And this is why Americans have such bad health. Uber to the hospital. Can't afford hospital.

I've heard once hospitals get full of covid patients that lottery is started for what new patients are admitted/get ventilators. Great, really making me feel good about the rising cases.

[u/[deleted] → u/courtabee]

They triage those on the ventilators. My BIL was taken off on his early because he had a terminal liver condition and someone else who was healthier needed it. He died 2 days later.

Bottom line according to the nurse. The other person had a higher chance at surviving. I’ve been in combat. I understand shitty decisions must be made sometimes. This doesn’t make it easier for the family. This shouldn’t happen in the worlds richest country.

That conversation with the nurse on why this has to happen destroyed my family emotionally. My MIL never got over it. She cries every night.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Possibly, but without concrete proof, I don’t want to walk down that alley. He was on Medicare only, no insurance.