A New York woman who died Sunday from cancer has raised enough money to erase million of dollars in medical debt with a posthumous plea for help. Casey McIntyre told followers in a social media message posted by her husband that she had arranged to buy the medical debt of others and destroy it as a way of celebrating her life.

RIP, goodhearted woman.

America, if you’d vote for change, this wouldn’t be necessary. The US is the only developed country where this is commonplace.

  • Mammal@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1116·
    1 year ago

    Democrats are just as committed to this for-profit driven healthcare system as Republicans are. They’re just a little bit more polite about it.

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      111·
      1 year ago

      Not really. There is at least a decent portion of Democrats in office that would love to at the very least offer a public option for health insurance. Unfortunately there are more than enough Democrats in office against the idea combined with all of the Republicans to block any sort of attempt at that or Medicare for All.

      • Mammal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        There were more than enough Democrats in Congress in 2008 to make that happen.

        There are more than enough Democrats now to make it enough of an issue that it becomes part of the public conversation.

        There are more than enough Democrats now that could make an internal party rule that prohibits Democrats from ever lobbying for pharmaceutical or insurance companies.

        However, the Democratic Party is far more motivated to kneecap actual healthcare reforms than actually implement what they say they believe in.