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Would they let you start a GoFundMe on their behalf? If that's a no go, I'd suggest a Catholic hospital. Many of them have charity programs and/or can help navigate the Medicaid process to get her coverage to get taken care of.

(My mother was in a similar boat, re: treatment for cancer. The hospital was how we got her coverage.)

They would, but the issue is - would anyone donate in time? She's in pain every day, it's worse every day. A GoFundMe is just so slow.

They don't have money for traveling (and my friend can't travel at this point, he's so weak), so going to a Catholic hospital is out of the question unless there's one very close by, which I have no clue about. But again - money for gas, and there's still the issue of daughter/grandson being less than reliable to care for a bed-bound paraplegic.

GoFundMe can be withdrawn pretty much as soon as money is there, so it'd just be a question of getting the donations, which is hit or miss, but theirs sounds like the kind of campaign that'd get funded.

According to this, she's actually most likely eligible for some form of TRICARE: https://www.va.gov/health-care/family-caregiver-benefits/

The whole situation just sucks, I'm so sorry they're going through that.

You'd think it would be, but you never know.

I'll send the links on, thank you!
I'm so disgusted by how uncaring all the nurses and doctors have been.

Ain't that the truth. :( But even if they can raise enough for cab fares or Uber once the insurance is in place, that's something and every bit helps.

No problem! And yeah, doctors/nurses should be trying to help people get the care they need, not scoffing at it.

If you do start a gofundme, please share the link here if you feel comfortable doing so. I don't have much but I'd like to donate.

The US healthcare system is so immensely fucked up. I can't believe our stupid fucking government is trying to go the same way.

I will, if I do. Thank you!

I'm boggled that *anyone* would want to copy our 'system'. It's a fucking mess.

Our current government is full of people whose goal is to privatise the NHS. One of them described it as having 'enormous profit potential' and 'the greatest privatisation potential in the Western world'.

That, right there, is the entire reason for it. So rich people can make a fuck ton of money out of our world class, free at point of access, universal healthcare system that is the greatest force for social equalisation in this crapped out country.

I had a health incident a few years ago that meant several months in hospital, surgery, investigations, etc, etc. Afterwards I calculated it would have cost me 500,000 dollars in the US. It cost me nothing. I walked in, I walked out. That was it. In my opinion the entire damn world should be copying the NHS. It's amazing. It's biggest problems are caused by underfunding and out-sourcing, and the source of that is all political because the rich bloody Tories want their rich mates to make money.

Fuck them.

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OMFG, this. WTH. We were a not-for-profit health care system here until Nixon did a favor for a buddy, and it's been downhill ever since.

The unmitigated, uncaring, gleeful *greed* of that statement is sicking. What the everyloving fuck. How do people live with themselves?

We were a not-for-profit health care system here until Nixon did a favor for a buddy, and it's been downhill ever since.

What the hell. I had no idea of this piece of American history. Just - what the hell.

With both Nixon and our corrupt shitpile of a government, how can this be legal?? There should be laws against the betrayal of public trust like this.

It's like you get to a certain level of wealth and power and you just cease to care about your fellow humanbeings. UGH.

Well anyway, I hope your friends find the money they need and definitely post the link if you set up a gofundme.

And in digging a little more, the VA offers home-based care, as well. Like anything with the government, it requires somebody doing the legwork and all that crap. It's referenced here: https://www.va.gov/GERIATRICS/Guide/LongTermCare/Skilled_Home_Health_Care.asp

Thanks, i'll send the links on. The biggest problem is money to drive anywhere, and that my friend can't actually *drive* anywhere.

But maybe after she (hopefully) gets the surgery......

I'm not sure about TRICARE or their hospitals, but sometimes there're programs that'll help with transport to/from medical care. Definitely a lot of things to try to unsnare, sadly, but hopefully those links help at least a tiny bit.

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