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| Jerry AshtonStatus is reachable Jerry Ashton • 1st Co-Founder of RIP Medical Debt and Director/Outreach and Engagement. Co-Author of 'End Medical Debt.' 6h • 'Barbaric': 8 Million Americans Have Been Forced to Start Crowdfunding Campaigns to Cover Medical Costs, Survey Shows 'No one should have to beg for money to get the healthcare they need in the richest country on Earth.' The poll, which was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, also found that in addition to the millions who have launched crowdfunding efforts for themselves or a member of their household, at least 12 million more Americans have started crowdfunding efforts for someone else. No alt text provided for this image 'Barbaric': 8 Million Americans Have Been Forced to Start Crowdfunding Campaigns to Cover Medical Costs, Survey Shows commondreams.org 17 9 Comments Like Comment Share Most Relevant Peter Burgess Peter BurgessStatus is online Peter Burgess You Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics.org developing True Value Impact Accounting 3s Bottom line ... the USA is NOT the richest country on earth ... rather the one with the biggest potential and also the most dysfunctional because of its embrace of the mythology of the likes of Milton Friedman ... PeterB #TVM Like Peter Burgess’ comment Steven Gan, CPA, CCE Steven Gan, CPA, CCE 2nd degree connection 2nd Commercial Credit Insurance Specialist & Credit Risk Management Consultant, Stellar Risk Management Services, Inc. 6h LinkedIn needs new icons to express anger, outrage, sadness, and being pissed off in general! ☹️ Like Steven Gan, CPA, CCE’S comment · 2 Likes 2 Likes on Steven Gan, CPA, CCE’S comment · 2 Replies 2 Replies on Steven Gan, CPA, CCE’S comment Jerry AshtonStatus is reachable Jerry Ashton Author Co-Founder of RIP Medical Debt and Director/Outreach and Engagement. Co-Author of 'End Medical Debt.' 6h You have my vote Like Jerry Ashton’s comment Peter BurgessStatus is online Peter Burgess You Founder/CEO at TrueValueMetrics.org developing True Value Impact Accounting 3s and mine Like Peter Burgess’ comment Peter Burgess Jennifer Hackett-Young Jennifer Hackett-Young 2nd degree connection 2nd Gemeoligist, Design, Architectural layout and design contract freelancer Artistic Jewelry and food creative enthusiast 5h That quote is very empowering and needs to be implanted in the greatest minds! Like Jennifer Hackett-Young’s comment Joseph A. Sprute Joseph A. Sprute 2nd degree connection 2nd ERES Institute for New Age Cybernetics 4h i'm actually surprised the hospitals haven't been the focus of terrorist attack #Coronavirus blah blah blah Like Joseph A. Sprute’s comment Ron Christensen Ron Christensen 2nd degree connection 2nd Experienced Chief Human Resources Executive in medium sized international companies. KEEP THE PRESS FREE 6h Exactly, the next President must deal with this, our medical system is far more expensive than any other developed country and other developed countries have universal coverage and if you said our quality is higher you would be wrong. Like Ron Christensen’s comment Bob Miglani Bob Miglani 2nd degree connection 2nd Keynote Speaker | Bestselling Author| |#change #transformation #reinvention | Ran a DQ | Ex-Pfizer 23yrs 5h This is incredibly sad. Thanks for sharing. Like Bob Miglani’s comment Cecil Stapley Cecil Stapley 2nd degree connection 2nd Doctoral student at William Howard Taft University: PhD program 2h Republican healthcare Like Cecil Stapley’s comment Lisa Gus Lisa Gus 2nd degree connection 2nd CEO @ WishKnish (venture-backed quantum-resistant interoperable blockchain app platform); Managing Partner @ VeeSee 6h It truly is barbaric. We're literally the only developed country that is struggling with this Like Lisa Gus’ comment · 2 Likes 2 Likes on Lisa Gus’ comment Duncan Walker follows Taylor & Taylor Financi https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/02/19/barbaric-8-million-americans-have-been-forced-start-crowdfunding-campaigns-cover# Published on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 byCommon Dreams 'Barbaric': 8 Million Americans Have Been Forced to Start Crowdfunding Campaigns to Cover Medical Costs, Survey Shows 'No one should have to beg for money to get the healthcare they need in the richest country on Earth.' byJake Johnson, staff writer 13 Comments Nurses use Band-Aids to attach GoFundMe pages to the headquarters of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America in Washington, D.C. (Photo: National Nurses United/Twitter) An estimated eight million people in the U.S. have started a crowdfunding campaign to help pay for their own or a member of their household's healthcare costs, according to a survey released Wednesday. The poll, which was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, also found that in addition to the millions who have launched crowdfunding efforts for themselves or a member of their household, at least 12 million more Americans have started crowdfunding efforts for someone else. Fifty million Americans have donated to such fundraising efforts, the survey showed. 'As annual out-of-pocket costs continue to rise, more Americans are struggling to pay their medical bills, and millions are turning to their social networks and crowdfunding sites to fund medical treatments and pay medical bills,' Mollie Hertel, senior research scientist at NORC, said in a statement. 'Although about a quarter of Americans report having sponsored or donated to a campaign, this share is likely to increase in the face of rising premiums and out-of-pocket costs.' Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, tweeted in response to the survey that 'no one should have to beg for money to get the health care they need in the richest country on Earth.' 'Enough is enough,' Sanders wrote. 'Medicare for All now.' The survey found that 60% of Americans believe the government—not charities, family members, or friends—has a 'great deal or a lot of responsibility' to provide 'help when medical care is unaffordable.' 'I have to presume that most crowdfunding campaigns fail,' tweeted single-payer advocate Tim Faust. 'So here's the future of American healthcare: costs keep going up; they keep being pushed onto patients by insurers; whether you drown in medical debt is a function of luck, popularity, and how much sympathy you can garner.' As she introduced the House version of the Medicare for All Act of 2019 last February, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) lamented that 'GoFundMe is becoming one of the most popular insurance plans in the country.' 'It comes down to a profit-making motive that is baked into a system—a system that puts profits over patients,' said Jayapal. | |||||||||