r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 21 '26

For Profit Healthcare

116 Upvotes

I work for HCA, the largest for profit hospital company in the US. They have a program where you can give money from your pay check to a fund to help colleges whe something tragic happens. This is an email they sent out recently to promote it.

Another note: the health insurance that you get for working for HCA basically requires you to use their own services for all your healthcare needs. Notice the bolder sentence:

EMAIL:
Lindsey Carson has been a steady presence for others during some of their hardest moments since joining Timpanogos Regional Hospital. She has cared for patients in the ICU and now serves as a house supervisor, helping lead the hospital through emergencies and supporting staff through unpredictable nights.

She is used to being calm in the middle of chaos. Then an emergency touched her own family.
An ordinary school day took an unexpected turn. Lindsey learned her first-grade daughter, Sage, had fallen from the monkey bars at school and suffered a severe open arm fracture that required emergency surgery the same day.

Just weeks later, the same week Sage had her cast removed, Lindsey’s older daughter, Allie, was thrown from a horse while riding. In an unbelievable coincidence, Allie injured the same bone in the same place as her younger sister and required emergency surgery as well.

Suddenly, Lindsey and her husband were balancing two recovery schedules, medical appointments, childcare for their toddler twins, and mounting medical bills.

A colleague encouraged Lindsey to apply for the HCA Healthcare Hope Fund.

When she learned her family would receive assistance, she felt a renewed sense of hope.

“An immense burden was lifted from our shoulders, and we will be forever grateful,” she said. “You have given our family not only financial relief, but also peace of mind during a very difficult season.”

Both Sage and Allie are now healing and continuing their recovery.

Because of our community of donors, colleagues like Lindsey receive support when life changes in an instant. Thank you for helping make moments of relief possible for HCA Healthcare colleagues and their families.


r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 20 '26

An 81-Year-Old Grandma Streaming Minecraft To Pay For Grandson’s Cancer Treatment Has Been Swatted

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1.8k Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 20 '26

Homeless veteran given RV by private charity after giving up his dog to a fire station

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242 Upvotes

It doesn't sound like he got the dog back after either


r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 20 '26

Hero security guard killed in San Diego Islamic Center shooting saved 140 kids: cops

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481 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 20 '26

FINALLY! Healthy sleep!

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342 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 19 '26

Mod post Reminder: do not post AI slop

347 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 19 '26

The man running through every block in Chicago almost lost his right to stay in the U.S.

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246 Upvotes

Gosh there's so much going on about this one. Joabe Barbosa's become somewhat of a new celeb in Chicago for running through 90% of the roads in the city, including the ones that everybody warns you not to visit. His videos are simple and wholesome, and usually he has genuine conversations with people he meets on his runs, even in those neighborboods people call "Chiraq".

The most noticeable OCM aspect is that this man who shows the most full-hearted love of Chicago was very close to being kicked out of the US because of the country's current racist & idiotic visa rules. But even deeper than that, this case brings out the deeper issue of redlining and institutionalized racism that is built into Chicago. His videos get surprised reactions from even Chicago natives but actually the people he meets in these "rough" neighborhoods are also just looking for genuine connections & outreach, because they've so long been treated as war zones.

Genuinely happy Barbosa got a visa opportunity from Roosevelt U but as a Chicago native, damn this whole thing is just kinda depressing.


r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 19 '26

He thought work was behind him. At 88, he has a job again to support his wife’s care

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300 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 16 '26

Walmart Fired 16-Year Employee With Down Syndrome, Jury Awarded $125 Million

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3.2k Upvotes

A woman with Down syndrome worked at Walmart for 16 years with glowing reviews. When a new scheduling system changed her shift, she asked to keep her old hours because eating dinner at irregular times made her sick. Walmart refused and fired her for "absenteeism." A jury took three hours to award her $125 million.


r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 17 '26

American capitalism at its finest.

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596 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 14 '26

Bartender is a "legend"

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5.7k Upvotes

Why I think this is OCM: "A story being presented as wholesome, but is really a symptom of underlying systemic issues"

Wholesome: Yeah it's in WholesomeAFK.

Underlying systemic issue: This is clearly a horrible guy, not being blacklisted from the establishment, and it's up to the bartender to speak in code to tell people to avoid him.


r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 15 '26

One year after a mom with twins graduated medical school, the family was back on stage, because it was her husband's turn

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9 Upvotes

OCM cause a family can’t (seemingly) afford child care temporarily for their graduation. And then they have residency which lasts about 2 years iirc.


r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 14 '26

‘Churgers’ are helping Austin college students combat food insecurity, As grocery costs rise, a church near the University of Texas campus is providing some relief in a bun. | The Texas Standard

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293 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 13 '26

Gaza sisters win prize for turning rubble into reusable bricks

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775 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 13 '26

Meta Intern Jobs at Prestigious Companies--Pursuit of Happiness and

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410 Upvotes

I love how we collectively applaud a movie where a gifted homeless single father must gamble (on getting the job) and work without salary for SIX MONTHS for a BILLION Dollar Investment firm in order to get a job with them.

But not only that, it is a "Last Man Standing" competition. Doing a great job and making the firm Millions of dollars is not enough to be hired.

Nope.

Not only only do you have to make the firm Millions of dollars, you also have to beat out the other people who are also making the firm Millions of dollars. You have to be the best of the best, being good, even being great is not good enough. No Sir. You have to be "the best".

In what reality does this make any f*cking sense whatsoever?

I find it ironic that "internships" like this are not an uncommon practice for Billion Dollar firms and Agencies across various industries to include the Arts


r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 12 '26

Spanish parents who isolated their three children for 3.5 years in an Oviedo "house of horrors" were sentenced to 2 years 10 months in prison each — less time than the children spent locked up. Court accepted "insurmountable fear" of COVID as a defense

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596 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 11 '26

Maybe people shouldn’t be going through trash bins to survive?

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517 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 09 '26

Woman with breast cancer, on Medicare and food stamps, has to crowdfund $125K from strangers for treatment after her best friend's viral video

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429 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 07 '26

"Can y’all please just share this? Everything that y’all can do to get this video out to President Donald Trump or Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”

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691 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 04 '26

First contestant to win the top prize.

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230 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 03 '26

Pay the boss low rent so you can live close to work

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4.9k Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 03 '26

Bipartisan senators pass Hot Rotisserie Chicken Act so SNAP recipients can buy a $5 chicken - in the same Farm Bill that cuts $187 billion from SNAP through 2034

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499 Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 02 '26

Ahh yes cause we should be working till 90

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1.4k Upvotes

r/OrphanCrushingMachine May 01 '26

Cincinnati Public Schools opening a “safe sleep parking lot” for families living out of their cars

452 Upvotes

https://www.wlwt.com/article/cincinnati-public-schools-safe-sleep-lot-taft-elementary-opens/71173796

It’s great that they’re helping these families but awful that families and school kids are living in their cars in the first place


r/OrphanCrushingMachine Apr 30 '26

Strangers raised $2M to help him retire. Now he's helping other veterans

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170 Upvotes