Casey McIntyre died from cancer on 12 November, but she devised a plan to cancel the medical debt of others as a parting gift
      • @[email protected]English
        10•8 months ago

        Join us in Alberta, we’re dismantling it now!

        Note: I am not a fan of the dismantling.

          • @[email protected]English
            3•7 months ago

            I moved here as an adult from the east coast so I don’t have to guess. The list of reasons might take a while to write up.

            I do love the lack if humidity, if I have to say something nice. :)

  • @[email protected]English
    31•8 months ago

    Now this “uplifting” story really has it all. Death, loss, a system of injustice and the sense that even if successful after all is done it will not even address a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the outstanding medical debt.

    The only thing more “uplifting” about this would be that one country keeps thinking these stories are not keeping people up at night.

    • @[email protected]English
      21•8 months ago

      The medical companies already sold the debt to debt servicing companies. It’s the debt collectors who are profiting, or (more likely) taking less of a loss on bad debt.

      Also, they didn’t pay USD$15 million. They paid $150,000 to buy $15 million of debt at a penny on the dollar.

      The organization that does this acknowledges that it’s a stopgap in the face of the human rights nightmare that is the USA’s healthcare system. It’s palliative care or harm reduction but not a long-term solution.

      Medicare for all.

  • OptionalEnglish
    13•8 months ago

    As of late Friday morning, her campaign with the New York-based nonprofit had raised nearly $140,000 of her $150,000 goal, amid a climate in which an estimated 100 million Americans are saddled with a total of about $195bn in medical debt.

    The US does not offer a universal healthcare system for its citizens.