GoFundMe CEO: ‘Gigantic Gaps’ in Health System Showing Up in Crowdfunding
I like to write short stories in my free time.<p>One that I’ve been working on over the last year is one where the concept of “crowdfunded healthcare” evolves into a dystopian game show where people go on TV and share their sob story on why they need money. Then the viewers at home get to choose who gets the show’s prize money each season through a bracket style voting system that crowns a champion at the end.<p>I had to stop working on it as it got really, really dark the more I wrote.<p>On that note, I find it supremely fucked up that people have to turn to crowdfunding to get their unexpected healthcare costs covered by benevolent internet citizens.