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Re: Captain Crunch needs your help

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Post by davidw »

adamnemecek wrote: post #6
davidw wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's complicated, and it's been abundantly discussed on the internet, if you'd care to use a service like Google to research it. Let's keep this thread about helping this one guy, rather than debating the merits of various health care systems.

At the same time, maybe it's situations like this that influence peoples' opinion on the matter.

Then let it speak for itself (I think it does). Politics are a poisonous topic for sites like this and are off-topic according to the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120530

Re: Captain Crunch needs your help

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Post by new299 »

jbermudes wrote: post #9
[deleted] wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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If he says they were anonymous people who set it up, what guarantees are there that the money would actually go to him?

hopefully anonymous just means that they don't want their identity known, not that he doesn't know. It would be good to get more clarification though.

Re: Captain Crunch needs your help

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Post by IvyMike »

itry wrote: post #2

How does the healthcare system work in the USA? You have to pay hospital out of your pocket? Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated?

> You have to pay hospital out of your pocket?

Surgery for cardiac arrest is far more expensive than $5000. The cost of such a surgery (without insurance) is easily over $100K and if you said "it was $1M" people would be like "that's a little high" rather than "impossible!"

This must be for incidental costs incurred or for recovery not covered by insurance. (Like: Some insurances might only cover physical therapy twice a week. They probably cite some study saying that is sufficient for recovery. But other people might argue more frequent sessions are better, so this money could cover the more frequent sessions.)

Re: Captain Crunch needs your help

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Post by cookiecaper »

itry wrote: post #2

How does the healthcare system work in the USA? You have to pay hospital out of your pocket? Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated?

>Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated?

They'll be treated, they'll just have to file for bankruptcy.

Re: Captain Crunch needs your help

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Post by thomaskcr »

itry wrote: post #2

How does the healthcare system work in the USA? You have to pay hospital out of your pocket? Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated?

He has medicare advantage plus according to his comments on his personal site -- so his care + rehab was covered. He talks a lot about billable work though, I have a feeling this is more for personal expenses and making it so he doesn't feel like he always needs to work and he can work until its not enjoyable and then relax and recoup.

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Post by rtpg »

davidw wrote: post #3
itry wrote: post #2

How does the healthcare system work in the USA? You have to pay hospital out of your pocket? Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated?

It's complicated, and it's been abundantly discussed on the internet, if you'd care to use a service like Google to research it. Let's keep this thread about helping this one guy, rather than debating the merits of various health care systems.

Is there a real debate? Literally every other highly-developed nation in the world does not have this problem.

A significant portion of HN are US-based software engineers or related. That probably means significant amounts of disposable income and some possibility of changing this.

We should help this guy, but we should also be donating to political candidates not afraid to tackle this problem.

We should be as loud as possible about how as a country, we have failed to create an environment where people can exert their right to a modicum of healthcare access without first having to lose everything they own (through bankruptcy or otherwise). Look at these cases straight-on and acknowledge that this is an absolute disgrace.

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Post by lotsofcows »

cookiecaper wrote: post #14
itry wrote: post #2

How does the healthcare system work in the USA? You have to pay hospital out of your pocket? Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated?

>Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated? They'll be treated, they'll just have to file for bankruptcy.

Number one cause of bankrupty in USA, land of the free fans!

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Post by tzs »

davidw wrote: post #11
adamnemecek wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At the same time, maybe it's situations like this that influence peoples' opinion on the matter.

Then let it speak for itself (I think it does). Politics are a poisonous topic for sites like this and are off-topic according to the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120530

> Politics [...] are off-topic according to the guidelines

Most submissions about politics are off-topic according to the guidelines. Nothing in the guidelines says that comments about politics are off-topic.

Re: Captain Crunch needs your help

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Post by davidw »

tzs wrote: post #18
davidw wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Then let it speak for itself (I think it does). Politics are a poisonous topic for sites like this and are off-topic according to the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120530

> Politics [...] are off-topic according to the guidelines Most submissions about politics are off-topic according to the guidelines. Nothing in the guidelines says that comments about politics are off-topic.

Long term, you can have one of these things:

* A high quality site, with interesting, possibly spirited, but civil discussions about various topics.

* Politics.

Your call.

Re: Captain Crunch needs your help

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Post by kuon »

rdl wrote: post #10
itry wrote: post #2

How does the healthcare system work in the USA? You have to pay hospital out of your pocket? Somebody who has not enough funds will not be treated?

This isn't raising money for just direct medical expenses; if you work as a contractor, consultant, speaker, etc., and for some reason can't work for a few months, it doesn't really matter if all your medical expenses are paid 100% -- you have no income, and for a lot of people, that means paying regular bills becomes difficult. It's not like your rent expenses at home go away just because you're staying in a hospita…

Here you just have insurance for this. You get 80% of your salary while you can't work.
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