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Comment by qeorge | Hacker News Reader

Reminder: you aren't Bill or Melinda Gates, but you are still rich from software. Maybe you could spend some of your funny money on someone else's healthcare?

I just sponsored a hysterectomy for $180 (1 year of Netflix) in 3 clicks on Watsi. That's crazy.

Maybe you can sponsor someone too: https://watsi.org/fund-treatments

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We made a donation to watsi today too, as part of our in-house flossing contest. A dry-erase marker and a bathroom mirror keeps the tally, and about once a month, someone wins. When the tally gets reset, the total number of flosses is donated, in dollar form, to a charity.

You win, because $1/floss is worth it in aggregate to prevent future dental bills. Someone else wins, because they get the treatment they need to live a better life.

I love this idea!

I don't give to healthcare ATM, but I do give to the "current me" feels strongly about -- organizations such as EFF, Mozilla foundation, etc. I also support my nuclear-fusion-researcher friend's dance group, since he could be easily making $200k+ on Wall Street yet has chosen to make ~$30k as a PhD student for a worthy cause.

I'm hoping that as I mature, I'll be expanding the range of causes to which I will be giving to.

And Kiva.org. That's how I do it; twenty-five dollars at a time.

http://www.kiva.org/

$180 isn't really "1 year of Netflix" -- you already bought 1 year of Netflix, and you have more money... you'd need to buy so much to run out of money... is it all improving your life at the margin, buying Netflix and Hulu and cable and HBO and ....?

Thanks for the pointer. Sponsored 3 persons treatments already.

And if outside money helps curing e.g. a women in Kenya will she on the other hand restrict the number of babies she'll have to one or two?

Without such 'contracts' watsi is - imho - bullshit.

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