Assume you’re life-lusted and are willing to abandon every moral you have just to live. Paying for cancer treatment is also worth prison time to you.
Also assume you’ve exhausted all ethical fundraising options, i.e. GoFundMe, loans, etc. and that insurance won’t cover treatment for whatever reason.
Join forces with a former student and cook meth in the back of a Winnebago
Sounds like a plan, Jesse
Jesse! We need to COOK!
BITCH!
I just get treatment because I live in a country that actually provides its citizens with healthcare (even if the Tories want to get rid of that).
Is it bad I can’t even tell which commonwealth country you’re talking about?
I don’t worry about money since the treatment is free and sick people get money from the government during recovery.
Australia. 3 years of chemotherapy, two stem cell transplants, multiple X-rays, CT and MRI scans, now in remission, didn’t have to pay for any of it.
Which country?
Germany at least, probably the whole EU too.
Sweden
Norway
Pretty much any developed country.
Start a fundraising email chain for Trumps legal defense and mass mail it.
Galaxy brain over here
if its good enough for him, its good enough for cancer.
Go to a hospital and get it treated. I assume this is some third world health care bait though, as it’s missing which country the hypothetical is happening in
I would do nothing. Healthcare is free here
Same. As it should be.
Tell us where so op can move there if it comes to that.
Sneak into a country with public healthcare I guess, maybe steal the identity of someone if they won’t treat a stranger.
Why yes I am Costa Rican
Lots of countries’ healthcare will treat you for free as long as you are there. The problem you need to solve is to not get kicked out of the country, so you need to either have a job, be rich, or have a provable reliable income (like a pension) to get a long term visa, or you need to go back to your plan of stealing someone’s identity.
I think quite a few countries would see “kicking you out whilst battling cancer” as a human rights violation, and would only kick you out after your treatments.
I was searching for some precedent there - which brought up Bush eliminating cancer treatments for illegal immigrants in 2007. It’s impressive that this war criminal can still disgust me even further.
The thing is that, at least for Americans, their country of origin can treat the cancer as well as any European country, and “I’m too poor to live in my own country” is usually not an accepted reason for immigration or asylum.
There are some countries that have medical treatment visas but those usually require people to pay for the treatment, and while it’s order of magnitude cheaper than US hospitals but for cancer is still not exactly cheap.
Can’t just go there on vacation?
Touristic visas only last 90 days. And usually the hospitals will only provide emergency care to tourists. They might be willing to stretch that definition a lot but not to the point of doing things that need to be regularly scheduled.
I don’t need money for the treatment. #publichealthcare
Die of anxiety long before the cancer gets me, lol
Laughs in Spanish from Spain.
Divorce my wife, quit working and get state funded insurance. We still keep her income and I can get treatment without sinking my entire family. Something something capitalist dystopia.
Used to see these people with multiple prescriptions for Percocets. They would use one for themselves and sell all the rest as individual pills to pay for treatment.
American healthcare system turned little old ladies with cancer into hardcore drug dealers.
Truer than people know in the US Especially the old Florida pill mills
Seriously? You wouldn’t do crime to live?
I’ve had acquaintances waste away trying to delay cancer death. Hospice is not fun, so I’d rather go out on my own terms.
Plus, any kind of money making scheme I’d think of is likely going to end up like the “aim for the bushes” scene in The Other Guys.
Even for cancers with high survival rates, like skin or breast cancer?
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I’ve heard that the success rate of bank robberies is far under reported.
I’ll get a social welfare benefits which won’t be a lot but I can probably make do for a while. I’ll also get a medical insurance benefit which covers roughly 2/3 of my insurance so I’ll have to pay something like €40/month myself. Those benefits will help me pay the €385 max yearly out of pocket for the care I’ll need, and be done with it. That’s not to say being in this situation is great in the Netherlands, but I won’t go into debt and I won’t lose my home (gov’t guarantees mortgage to bank) and I won’t have to continue to pay back my 0% interest student loans.
this implies welfare is stealing
What do you mean?
You have no option but to steal
(from the post title)
Ah, damnit. I guess I’ve accidentally gone full right wing there.
happens to the best of us
