What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - The Dark Side of GoFundMe
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In theory, crowdfunding sites offer an opportunity for anyone to give to any cause, including, say, strangers facing huge medical bills. In practice, crowdfunding suffers from many of the same inequities that led to someone needing to crowdfund to begin with.
Guest: Nora Kenworthy, author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare, associate professor at the University of Washington, Bothell.
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| 0:57.0 | Several years ago, Norr Kenworthy met a young woman named Emily. |
| 1:06.4 | Emily was 22, doing seasonal work and living with her boyfriend's relatives. |
| 1:11.6 | She was estranged from her mother and had no |
| 1:14.6 | safety net to rely on. And then she was diagnosed with severe late-stage leukemia. |
| 1:21.6 | Facing this very significant diagnosis and suddenly being thrust into a sort of sea of hospital appointments and in particular being treated at a hospital appointments and in particular being treated at a hospital that was quite far from her home. |
| 1:35.0 | She realized that she was on the brink of financial disaster. |
| 1:39.0 | So Emily turned to crowd funding. |
| 1:42.0 | Originally the nurses at the hospital she was at told her to try and sell |
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