“In the wake of this loss, Kimberly and the children are facing an uncertain future,” the GoFundMe page reads. “The costs of James’s medical care and the extended fight against cancer have left the family out of funds. They are working hard to stay in their home and to ensure the children can continue their education and maintain some stability during this incredibly difficult time.
What an uncivilized shithole of a country. Civilized countries have single payer health insurance.
Either I’ve seen this type of thing before when he first went public, or it’s been some other famous person needing to do similar. Could be both, honestly. Leads to the same problem. Even money can’t save you in this kind of crooked system.
I was meaning the NHS in the UK. I’d not heard the phrase “single-payer healthcare” before and sort of assumed it was some form of “health insurance” thing, but one significantly less insane than the American system.
I tried looking at the Wikipaedia page for it, but now it’s even less clear - it says “The term was coined in the 1990s to characterize the differences between the Canadian healthcare system with those such as the United Kingdom’s NHS”, suggesting it very much means “not the NHS” - though it also mentions UK healthcare elsewhere on the page???
Anyway, the essence of the point is the same - the way the American system works is insane and barbaric, and there are better, proven to work, options available which are currently used in other countries :)
He left 6 kids behind. At the end, he had to have been thinking that if he knew he’d blow all of his money, and still die anyway, his family would have been better off if he had just committed suicide when he first got the news.
That’s what I’d be thinking. That’s the kind of shithole medical care we get in this country, because both parties think it’s more important to use our health as a weapon to manipulate us.
What an uncivilized shithole of a country. Civilized countries have single payer health insurance.
Absolutely right. Thank you for posting this, OP.
Either I’ve seen this type of thing before when he first went public, or it’s been some other famous person needing to do similar. Could be both, honestly. Leads to the same problem. Even money can’t save you in this kind of crooked system.
He already auctioned off a lot of his Dawson’s Creek memorabilia to pay his medical costs.
Or a National Health Service?
I think the National Health Service (assuming you mean in the UK) is a form of single-payer healthcare
I was meaning the NHS in the UK. I’d not heard the phrase “single-payer healthcare” before and sort of assumed it was some form of “health insurance” thing, but one significantly less insane than the American system.
I tried looking at the Wikipaedia page for it, but now it’s even less clear - it says “The term was coined in the 1990s to characterize the differences between the Canadian healthcare system with those such as the United Kingdom’s NHS”, suggesting it very much means “not the NHS” - though it also mentions UK healthcare elsewhere on the page???
Anyway, the essence of the point is the same - the way the American system works is insane and barbaric, and there are better, proven to work, options available which are currently used in other countries :)
I think it basically means there’s no middle man (like a health insurance industry).
Since it’s one massive customer (the Canadian government, or the NHS in the case of the UK), there is only one single entity that is paying.
And naturally, that’s wayyy cheaper.
There are some big differences between Canadian healthcare and the NHS, but I think they’re both technically single payer.
Good lord, you godless communists never think of other people! What about shareholder value?!
But seriously, as an older person, I hope I go quickly and quietly.
I’ve increased my cholesterol intake and signed my DNR’s.
He left 6 kids behind. At the end, he had to have been thinking that if he knew he’d blow all of his money, and still die anyway, his family would have been better off if he had just committed suicide when he first got the news.
That’s what I’d be thinking. That’s the kind of shithole medical care we get in this country, because both parties think it’s more important to use our health as a weapon to manipulate us.