Health Care Roulette

Antonia Malchik
4 min readSep 26, 2022

The GoFundMe-reliant meltdown of America’s health care system

Pile of U.S. dollar bills on a dark green background
Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

My younger sister recently had to launch a GoFundMe account to pay for an out-of-network surgery that, along with days of unpaid time off from her job, without help would drive her and her family deep under financial water, if not bankrupt them.

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Antonia Malchik

Antonia Malchik is the author of A Walking Life: Reclaiming Our Health and Our Freedom One Step at a Time; walking, tech, community, and embodiment.