Crowdfunding for medical costs is turning health-care into a reality-TV competition

One problem—or feature, depending on your point of view—with crowdfunding, charity, and even mutual insurance, is that you get to decide who deserves to be cured, and you can exclude people that you don’t like or you don’t approve of. You get to allow your racism, fears, or phobias play a role on your decision.

Somebody out there has to be thinking already of a sick reality TV program in which people get to compete to be cured. A way to “monetize” and profit the suffering of people for the good of the quarterly earnings report. :face_vomiting: indeed.

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