Selling lemonade to save your mother's life? That's American healthcare for you

[Lucy Hamilton]

Caring about and for one's fellow humans seems to be interpreted as subversive, somehow. Those early Christians were such "commies". No wonder today's 'christians' don't pay any attention to such foolishness.
Still, happy and healthy people are peaceful. Peace is cheaper than war. That should be obvious to fiscal conservatives. To reactionaries, "not so much".

Nemiah Martinez her mother has Obamacare, so why is the child having to raise money for her mothers healthcare? Isn't that saying that Obamacare is a failure?

 

[keepitreal]

Personally, what comes to mind for me,
is that Oprah, Beyonce, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates,
Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos, could easily pick up the tab

Not collectively, individually...any one of them

 

[dblack]

This is an example of what Europeans think of our healthcare.

Selling lemonade to save your mother's life? That's American healthcare for you | Jamie Peck

Some think the story of an 11-year-old desperately raising money on weekends is ‘heart-warming’. It’s really an indictment of all that is wrong with the US


When 11-year-old Nemiah Martinez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, found out her mom needed money to help her get a kidney and pancreas transplant, she didn’t waste time feeling sorry for herself. She got off her 11-year-old behind, pulled herself up by her Dora the Explorer shoelaces, and opened a lemonade stand.

To date, she’s raised over $1,000 for her mom’s care by selling drinks out of her family’s garage every weekend for $1.50 a pop. Now, with any luck, this resourceful little girl might still have a mother by the time she graduates from high school. “I’m the lucky one,” Nemiah’s mom, Paloma, told ABC News.

ABC News portrayed Nemiah’s plight as a feelgood human interest story. One radio show called the story “heartwarming”. We should call it what it really is: a damning indictment of everything that’s wrong with America.
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It would have been far more humane if she passed a law forcing all the other kids in the neighborhood to help her.

 

[TNHarley]

Didnt the UK just let a baby die without receiving different treatment? Even treatment that was PAID for without their tax dollars?
LOL yea..

 

[dblack]

Has anyone confirmed that her lemonade stand passed regulatory muster? Did she have a proper vendor's license?

 

[Cecilie1200]

This is an example of what Europeans think of our healthcare.

Selling lemonade to save your mother's life? That's American healthcare for you | Jamie Peck

Some think the story of an 11-year-old desperately raising money on weekends is ‘heart-warming’. It’s really an indictment of all that is wrong with the US


When 11-year-old Nemiah Martinez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, found out her mom needed money to help her get a kidney and pancreas transplant, she didn’t waste time feeling sorry for herself. She got off her 11-year-old behind, pulled herself up by her Dora the Explorer shoelaces, and opened a lemonade stand.

To date, she’s raised over $1,000 for her mom’s care by selling drinks out of her family’s garage every weekend for $1.50 a pop. Now, with any luck, this resourceful little girl might still have a mother by the time she graduates from high school. “I’m the lucky one,” Nemiah’s mom, Paloma, told ABC News.

ABC News portrayed Nemiah’s plight as a feelgood human interest story. One radio show called the story “heartwarming”. We should call it what it really is: a damning indictment of everything that’s wrong with America.
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Amazing how all the stories about this are so busy pointing fingers of blame at "American healthcare" for not - presumably - simply giving away transplants for free, not a damned one of them bothers to mention why it is that this lady didn't make provisions for her own healthcare.

Curious.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Imagine when one's fellow citizens would abandon one to the vicissitudes of the lemonade trade and think nothing of it, pretending $1000 is anything more than a drop in the ocean. I can't comprehend it.

At what point did we become responsible for this woman, and why? I never met her before in my life, and I doubt anyone else here did, either.

 

[Cecilie1200]

America redefines the word "civilization", but not for the better. The richest, most bountiful nation of all time, yet lacking in humanity and humility.

Is that a fact, Oh Great Arbiter of Morality? And your definition of "civilization" would be what, precisely? Share with us what your superior wisdom and evolved sensibilities have shown you that we mere, savage peons have yet to grasp.

 

[boedicca]

This is an example of what Europeans think of our healthcare.

Selling lemonade to save your mother's life? That's American healthcare for you | Jamie Peck

Some think the story of an 11-year-old desperately raising money on weekends is ‘heart-warming’. It’s really an indictment of all that is wrong with the US


When 11-year-old Nemiah Martinez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, found out her mom needed money to help her get a kidney and pancreas transplant, she didn’t waste time feeling sorry for herself. She got off her 11-year-old behind, pulled herself up by her Dora the Explorer shoelaces, and opened a lemonade stand.

To date, she’s raised over $1,000 for her mom’s care by selling drinks out of her family’s garage every weekend for $1.50 a pop. Now, with any luck, this resourceful little girl might still have a mother by the time she graduates from high school. “I’m the lucky one,” Nemiah’s mom, Paloma, told ABC News.

ABC News portrayed Nemiah’s plight as a feelgood human interest story. One radio show called the story “heartwarming”. We should call it what it really is: a damning indictment of everything that’s wrong with America.
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Selling Lemonade >>> Being Exterminated Like Alfie

 

[Cecilie1200]

This is an example of what Europeans think of our healthcare.

Selling lemonade to save your mother's life? That's American healthcare for you | Jamie Peck

Some think the story of an 11-year-old desperately raising money on weekends is ‘heart-warming’. It’s really an indictment of all that is wrong with the US


When 11-year-old Nemiah Martinez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, found out her mom needed money to help her get a kidney and pancreas transplant, she didn’t waste time feeling sorry for herself. She got off her 11-year-old behind, pulled herself up by her Dora the Explorer shoelaces, and opened a lemonade stand.

To date, she’s raised over $1,000 for her mom’s care by selling drinks out of her family’s garage every weekend for $1.50 a pop. Now, with any luck, this resourceful little girl might still have a mother by the time she graduates from high school. “I’m the lucky one,” Nemiah’s mom, Paloma, told ABC News.

ABC News portrayed Nemiah’s plight as a feelgood human interest story. One radio show called the story “heartwarming”. We should call it what it really is: a damning indictment of everything that’s wrong with America.
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They have obummercare dude, what the hell else do you want?

Trump failed to defeat Obamacare.

And yet YOU are apparently telling us that Obamacare SHOULD have been defeated, as it did not do what we were promised it would. At least, judging from your post, it didn't.

 

[Political Junky]

This is an example of what Europeans think of our healthcare.

Selling lemonade to save your mother's life? That's American healthcare for you | Jamie Peck

Some think the story of an 11-year-old desperately raising money on weekends is ‘heart-warming’. It’s really an indictment of all that is wrong with the US


When 11-year-old Nemiah Martinez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, found out her mom needed money to help her get a kidney and pancreas transplant, she didn’t waste time feeling sorry for herself. She got off her 11-year-old behind, pulled herself up by her Dora the Explorer shoelaces, and opened a lemonade stand.

To date, she’s raised over $1,000 for her mom’s care by selling drinks out of her family’s garage every weekend for $1.50 a pop. Now, with any luck, this resourceful little girl might still have a mother by the time she graduates from high school. “I’m the lucky one,” Nemiah’s mom, Paloma, told ABC News.

ABC News portrayed Nemiah’s plight as a feelgood human interest story. One radio show called the story “heartwarming”. We should call it what it really is: a damning indictment of everything that’s wrong with America.
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Amazing how all the stories about this are so busy pointing fingers of blame at "American healthcare" for not - presumably - simply giving away transplants for free, not a damned one of them bothers to mention why it is that this lady didn't make provisions for her own healthcare.

Curious.

Anywhere else in the world she'd get care.

 

[Cecilie1200]

Caring about and for one's fellow humans seems to be interpreted as subversive, somehow. Those early Christians were such "commies". No wonder today's 'christians' don't pay any attention to such foolishness.
Still, happy and healthy people are peaceful. Peace is cheaper than war. That should be obvious to fiscal conservatives. To reactionaries, "not so much".

No, pretending that shuffling responsibility off onto bureaucrats so that you can congratulate yourself is somehow "caring about one's fellow humans" is subversive, not to mention repulsive and insane.

You want to tout yourself as more caring than others? Tell us how big the check is that YOU PERSONALLY wrote to send this woman.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

It's a damning indictment of everything that’s wrong with failed rightwing dogma, access to affordable health care in particular.

 

[westwall]

Based on the amount of money we give away to the world your assertion is laughable. No nation on EARTH, in all of mans history has ever been more generous than the USA.

Yet your link gives no national comparisons. Strange.
Oh look, it was the usual mindless USA, USA, USA chant....

In 2013, the UK joined a select group of countries that had reached the target of donating 0.7% of their national income on foreign aid. Of the 29 members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC), only Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Luxembourg spent more than 0.7% of their national income in foreign aid in 2013.
https://www.theguardian.com​

The US gave 373.25 BILLION dollars away in 2015. How much did the entire rest of the world give in 2015?

 

[Cecilie1200]

Personally, what comes to mind for me,
is that Oprah, Beyonce, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates,
Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos, could easily pick up the tab

Not collectively, individually...any one of them

Personally, what comes to mind for me is that Oprah, Beyonce, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos never met or even heard of this woman, and aren't responsible for her.

 

[westwall]

It's a damning indictment of everything that’s wrong with failed rightwing dogma, access to affordable health care in particular.

No, it's an indictment of the crappy obummercare system WHICH SHE IS USING! You all claimed obummercare was great. You said it would save everyone.. So, what the heck changed?

 

[westwall]

"You progressives". Responding to a singular person in the plural demonstrates a lack of comprehension.

Instead of arguing semantics and grammar how about you address the fact that YOU progressives are all ignorant of history, and the country you all love to denigrate.

 

[Cecilie1200]

This is an example of what Europeans think of our healthcare.

Selling lemonade to save your mother's life? That's American healthcare for you | Jamie Peck

Some think the story of an 11-year-old desperately raising money on weekends is ‘heart-warming’. It’s really an indictment of all that is wrong with the US


When 11-year-old Nemiah Martinez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, found out her mom needed money to help her get a kidney and pancreas transplant, she didn’t waste time feeling sorry for herself. She got off her 11-year-old behind, pulled herself up by her Dora the Explorer shoelaces, and opened a lemonade stand.

To date, she’s raised over $1,000 for her mom’s care by selling drinks out of her family’s garage every weekend for $1.50 a pop. Now, with any luck, this resourceful little girl might still have a mother by the time she graduates from high school. “I’m the lucky one,” Nemiah’s mom, Paloma, told ABC News.

ABC News portrayed Nemiah’s plight as a feelgood human interest story. One radio show called the story “heartwarming”. We should call it what it really is: a damning indictment of everything that’s wrong with America.
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Amazing how all the stories about this are so busy pointing fingers of blame at "American healthcare" for not - presumably - simply giving away transplants for free, not a damned one of them bothers to mention why it is that this lady didn't make provisions for her own healthcare.

Curious.

Anywhere else in the world she'd get care.

No, anywhere else in the world, she'd be put on a waiting list and have a 50/50 chance of dying before she got care.

Waiting time to kidney transplant down 18% but shortage of donors still costing lives

They are actually PROUD of getting their wait times for kidney transplants DOWN to 944 days. Are you seriously suggesting the US should aspire to be like THAT?

Here in America, she'd already have care if she'd bothered to put forth the effort to get health coverage.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

This is an example of what Europeans think of our healthcare.

Selling lemonade to save your mother's life? That's American healthcare for you | Jamie Peck

Some think the story of an 11-year-old desperately raising money on weekends is ‘heart-warming’. It’s really an indictment of all that is wrong with the US


When 11-year-old Nemiah Martinez of Las Cruces, New Mexico, found out her mom needed money to help her get a kidney and pancreas transplant, she didn’t waste time feeling sorry for herself. She got off her 11-year-old behind, pulled herself up by her Dora the Explorer shoelaces, and opened a lemonade stand.

To date, she’s raised over $1,000 for her mom’s care by selling drinks out of her family’s garage every weekend for $1.50 a pop. Now, with any luck, this resourceful little girl might still have a mother by the time she graduates from high school. “I’m the lucky one,” Nemiah’s mom, Paloma, told ABC News.

ABC News portrayed Nemiah’s plight as a feelgood human interest story. One radio show called the story “heartwarming”. We should call it what it really is: a damning indictment of everything that’s wrong with America.
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Backward third world shit hole.

...only the conservative parts.

 

[Gracie]

Now that the story is out, I wonder how long before some schmuck turns her in for having a business without a license and the health department shuts her down.