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GoFundMe Is a Health-Care Utility Now | Resorting to crowdfunding to pay medical bills has become so routine, in some cases health professionals recommend it.

www.theatlantic.com GoFundMe Is a Health-Care Utility Now

Resorting to crowdfunding to pay medical bills has become so routine, in some cases health professionals recommend it.

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GoFundMe Is a Health-Care Utility Now

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sad.
"richest country in the world" is #1 in medical bankruptcy
go usa
- Oh, but we have "the best healthcare system in the world" and "the waiting times are so long in Canada."
  I had to wait a year to get an appointment with a neurologist after my old neurologist retired. A year.
  
  My 2yo can't really hear properly due to fluid build up in his ears. He can barely speak and it's obvious compared to his peers. ENT can't see us for 4 months.
  
  I'm so sorry to hear that. How awful for a 2-year-old to have to suffer through that! It's ridiculous that something that should be fixed quickly and easily is going to delay your son's development!
  EDIT: Does your ENT have a cancellation list? If they do and you're not on it, get on it ASAP!
  
  This is heart breaking - it must be so hard to watch your little one suffer and be helpless. I truly wish you the best!
  
  The fuck is the point of any of this shit at all if we aren't helping those who need it? I wonder thos every day.
  
  My local dentist has a nine month wait list for new patients.
  
  This is something I don't fully understand how it works tbh. In Aus you very much can still pay for health insurance if people care about time that much and they have the money for it.
  So the only difference is that we have both if you dont have money, and that we still spend less per capita in healthcare?
  
  The US spends more on healthcare than pretty much anyone else.
  https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-spending-u-s-compare-countries/
  
  I had a couple of seizures about a year ago and I just recently got around to seeing a neurologist to get me on something full time. It took some work (mostly by my wife) but I was able to see someone within a couple of weeks of looking. It took some calls to find one that didn't require a referral.
  I wonder why it took you that long..
  
  Because there's less than 100,000 people in this small city's metro area and not very many neurologists.
  
  I'm in a city of 250k. If we couldn't have found one in the city, we would have looked at the 3 cities with about an hour and half drive from us. Sometimes you have to widen your search parameters.
  
  Must be nice to have a job that gives you the time off to drive an hour and a half there and back plus wait and exam time to a neurologist.
  Unfortunately, I did not at the time.
  
  You make it work. You do what you have to do to get shit handled. Thankfully we didn't have to go that far out, but, my wife did have to take my stepdaughter a couple of hours away for a new psych doc and will probably have to go once a year to get prescriptions renewed.
  I run my own livery and my wife works from home. As I said above, you figure shit out.
  You took a year to get things handled instead of expanding your search radius and being willing to drive to a nearby city. You already had to take off for the appointment and that can be an easy couple of hours as it is. What's an extra hour or so in drive time? My appointment took a good 2+ hours with most of that waiting while he looked over my history and dealing with other patients. That day was cut really short for me as it was, losing another hour or so wouldn't have changed much.
  
  You took a year to get things handled instead of expanding your search radius and being willing to drive to a nearby city.
  Yes, because that would have taken 3-4 hours and my job wouldn't let me off for that long. I get that you have a good job that lets you do that. I did not.
  You already had to take off for the appointment and that can be an easy couple of hours as it is.
  Except it never has been once. It's been at most an hour and a half total.
  Do you think maybe you don't know the situation I was in?
  Do you think maybe lecturing someone about how they didn't do what you think they should have done when you don't know the situation they were in is courteous or considerate?
  
  Dude. Check yourself. I've been further down and out than most people realize. Every job I've ever had you could take a day off for things like medical appointments. You say you have decent insurance which means a somewhat decent job, that means you should be able to put in for time off, especially if its a month or two out instead of a year out. You find someone to drive you if needed, cover a shift,watch the kids, walk the dog, whatever.
  As I already said. I work for myself. Any time not spent working is lost money. I don't have pto or fmla to lean on. My wife is now on w2 but was IC for decades. She came with me and took time off work but because she is now a manager of her team, this put her behind for the day. We still made it work.
  I'm just continually amazed at how few people are willing to put tbe work in to take care of things. If it doesn't line up or seem easy from the get, they just give up and let their schedule be dictated by others.
  For my job, I regularly get people who traveled to my city for health care. People travel for medical all of the time. Taking a day off work to travel to another city is worth it long term if it means you get the care you need.
  
  Every job I’ve ever had you could take a day off for things like medical appointments.
  Every job you've had has been better than the job I had. You do know they don't have any legal obligation to do that, right? It's almost if you didn't have the job I had.
  You say you have decent insurance which means a somewhat decent job
  No, it means my wife has a decent job.
  I’m just continually amazed at how few people are willing to put tbe work in to take care of things. If
  You don't fucking know me or my life. You have no idea how much work I've put into my health. I'm going to the Mayo Clinic in March due to illness. Do you know how hard it is to get into the Mayo Clinic? Do you know how much work and effort that takes?
  No, you fucking don't. Because you've had a cushy job and a cushy life.
  
  Holy fuck dude. You are fucking mental.
  I've been broke and struggling my entire life. My parents fucked me over, my father gave all of our money (what little we had) to the church of scientology. I've worked retail, restaurants, run my own pc repair service, helped a few people build websites, delivered furniture, did outside sales and more than I want to go into here. My last "real" job was as a utility locate tech making $12.50/hr. Now I work for myself (again), yesterday I made $250+, today I'm at $90 8 hours in. Does that sound cushy to you?
  You have to stand up for yourself because no one else will. When I worked foodlion I literally wrote on the time off calendar that I wouldn't be in the state and if they scheduled me that's on them. And yes, they legally have to allow you to take off for health stuff. There is also fmla which they can't deny.
  Seriously dude. Stop being a fucking victim and whining about how bad you have it. We all have our issues and personally I've been able to survive being out of work for over a year without being evicted or losing weight. I've had 2 sets of seizures that fucked my back up, the last one I also busted a shoulder. I've been hit by a car biking to work and more and I'm still around and not bitching about how much my life sucks (except venting to my wife when I need to). As I said up chain, you make shit happen when it needs to happen. Or you can sit back and bitch and whine like a toddler.
  You might consider spending less time on here and more time figuring shit out. It's clear by how active you are on here that you are tantamount to a shut in. You can't actually be working a job that let's you spend all your time on here but doesn't allow you to take time off for medical stuff.
  I'm done here and I'm going to block your whiny victim ass because I have to actually work and keep building my business so I can maybe, sometime in the future, not be worried about my day to day finances. Oh and I'm dealing with a headache just shy of a migraine that is probably related to the dilantin I was recently prescribed. So basically, you can fuck off with your (my life sucks worse than yours) bullshit.

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