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Instead of donating to this guy I'd prefer to advocate for a free health system and a system that doesn't fuck up a family that has had enough bad luck to see its father die.

Having someone in his last months of life begging for money to not leave his family screwed up seems like a waste of those precious last weeks.

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> Instead of donating to this guy I'd prefer to advocate for a free health system and a system that doesn't fuck up a family that has had enough bad luck to see its father die.

It doesn't appear that health care costs are a major issue in this scenario. Even with universal healthcare, a dead breadwinner is going to significantly impact a family's financial situation.

This has nothing, or very little, to do with healthcare costs. This guy has a lot of debt that he took out before the cancer.

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