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Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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That doesn't say how you would fund it, only what form of insurance is in place. If the US were to shift to that model today, a country already heavily in debt would have to either take on more debt PR increase revenues in a manner that they wouldn't have been willing to in order to fund our already growing debts. The debate over whether public or private healthcare is better is all well and good, but first we should…

A Single-Payer-System would also be cheaper in the US. Nobody expenses as much on administrative cost, nobody pays so much as a % of GDP on Healthcare as you, still you have the worst health outcomes of all developed nations. Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion and the savings that would be achieved through the Medicare for All Act, we calculate that a single-payer, universal health-care system i…

Looks like I don't have access to the full paper, but I would be extremely skeptical of any claims with such accuracy or certainty.

The healthcare industry in the US is massive and already full of corruption and inefficiency. Even if we are to assume giving politicians and bureaucracy more control over the system will reduce both issues, we can't predict how successful that will be.

Similar claims were made regarding the hopes for ACA reducing costs and here we are.

Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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I recall seeing these ads, I thought the whole thing was fake to be honest - which it really felt it was due to the obvious staging and scripting.

I thought they were AI due to the heavy use of filters / AI enhancement.

Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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>Instead of being sarcastic you could be good faith What was bad faith? I told you what happened. I was sarcastic because your comment was redundant and didn't add anything to the conversation, only instigating. > and provide further information explore what happened How does that change the situation? Are you the head prosecutor of Israel and looking to rectify the situation? >what you think Israel should do differe…

Becuase you made an argument with a single supporting example yet didn't name any name that could be used to verify what you said and let other people judge the case nor have you explained at any point of there was any court procedure in Israel about extradition and whatever he ended up extradited. How are we supposed to disscus particulars like that? Resorting to sarcasm so fast that you aren't interested in genuine…

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Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Well before one can go into jail there must be a trial. I am not religious but for people like this I sometimes hope hell would exist.

What do you think the effect would be if, after a trial, everyone in the scam organization was executed?

How about if they were deliberately given cancer via some means and then legally barred from receiving any treatment for it?

Since that’s what they did to their victims.

Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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Does clicking on the ad cost the spammer a lot of money

Yes, which is one of two reasons why I use a blocker called adnauseum. It an adv locker that “clicks” on every single ad it sees, as well as hides it from my view. This makes my ad profile useless, and also costs them money.

you should probably think about the fact that ad platforms expect and design for fraudulent and bot clicks before you assume that this actually costs anyone money.

Re: Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment

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I'm still waiting for the tech world to wake up and realise that the online ad machinery and user tracking software that the brightest minds of our generation have been working on are just a way to efficiently connect scammers with their unsuspecting victims.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

(but enough about LLM shills)
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