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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t usually. I know a family who lives in a house twice the size of mine, drives luxury cars, and sends 3 kids to private schools. The mom wears and carries designer everything. They take vacations to Europe every summer. The mom was diagnosed with breast cancer- thankfully, very early stage, she had a lumpectomy and I believe a short course of radiation. Of course this is terrifying for her and I understand and appreciate that. However I do not understand nor do I appreciate the GoFundMe for 50k for “health care costs” when she does have good health insurance and doesn’t work so no lost income. By the way , she didn’t change her families lifestyle at all. Still took those vacations and got those new shoes. [/quote]

This is just a well-dressed beggar.  Insurance covered her expenses; anything not addressed by insurance should be easily addressed with savings from an emergency fund.  No such fund?  Then they're risk-takers who gambled and lost, which is on them.  They can sell assets if they need to.  Going around with a hand out in these circumstances is more than merely distasteful, it's appalling.  [/quote]

She wanted a lot of “alternative treatments”, is what I understood, that insurance did not cover. After her traditional treatments of course, she isn’t crazy, she did the recommended stuff, but then wanted to do things like hyperbaric therapy and vitamin infusions and those , I learned, were the “health costs.” Not my circus but it left a bad taste in my mouth and I did not donate. [/quote]

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