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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3107224" data-attributes="member: 56035"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2017/10/02/las-vegas-shooting-gofundme-health-care/" target="_blank">Las Vegas Official Sets Up GoFundMe to Aid Shooting Victims — the Price of No Universal Health Care</a>Nevada’s Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nevada-medicaid-2017-story.html" target="_blank">vetoed legislation</a> over the summer that would have allowed Nevadans to buy into the state’s Medicaid program.Asking strangers for charitable donations to tackle medical bills is ubiquitous in the United States. A <a href="https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/medical-debt-crowdfunding-bankruptcy/" target="_blank">report</a> by NerdWallet released in 2015 found that $930 million of the $2 billion raised by GoFundMe since its 2010 launch have been related to medical bills. Yet NerdWallet’s comprehensive survey of crowdfunding sites found that barely 1 in 10 medical campaigns raised the full amount they asked for.The hundreds wounded are being tended to in Clark County’s network of hospitals in Nevada. But because this is a country that has never had guaranteed universal health care, they will soon be besieged by a second tragedy: enormous medical bills.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3107224, member: 56035"] [URL="https://theintercept.com/2017/10/02/las-vegas-shooting-gofundme-health-care/"]Las Vegas Official Sets Up GoFundMe to Aid Shooting Victims — the Price of No Universal Health Care[/URL] Nevada’s Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval [URL='http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-nevada-medicaid-2017-story.html']vetoed legislation[/URL] over the summer that would have allowed Nevadans to buy into the state’s Medicaid program. Asking strangers for charitable donations to tackle medical bills is ubiquitous in the United States. A [URL='https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/loans/medical-debt-crowdfunding-bankruptcy/']report[/URL] by NerdWallet released in 2015 found that $930 million of the $2 billion raised by GoFundMe since its 2010 launch have been related to medical bills. Yet NerdWallet’s comprehensive survey of crowdfunding sites found that barely 1 in 10 medical campaigns raised the full amount they asked for. The hundreds wounded are being tended to in Clark County’s network of hospitals in Nevada. But because this is a country that has never had guaranteed universal health care, they will soon be besieged by a second tragedy: enormous medical bills. [/QUOTE]

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