Edhat Staff
By edhat staff
It’s GivingTuesday and we’re highlighting a fundraiser for a Santa Barbara family in need.
Approximately two weeks ago, a local couple went on a date night and left their young child with their caregiver, Yanet.
Yanet, her son, and the couple’s daughter were crossing the street when all three were hit by a vehicle. All three were injured and are still recovering from their injuries.
The driver stopped at the scene and called an ambulance, however, the driver is 17-years-old and did not have a valid license or insurance. This has left Yanet and her son trying to heal from their injuries while also scrambling to pay for expensive medical costs. While Yanet’s son has access to health insurance through his father, Yanet does not have the same coverage and needs support to pay mounting medical bills; the ambulance alone cost over $2,300.
The local family has created a GoFundMe account to help with their medical expenses while recovering.
On this GivingTuesday, we hope you consider donating to help this woman and these children recover from their injuries. Donations can be made here.
The guy’s family must have known he was trouble. I say get him a job and garnish his wages. It won’t be much, but maybe it will teach him responsibility.
This is why an Improved Medicare for All is necessary for the United States such as proposed by Pramila Jayapal HR1384 and Bernie Sanders S1129 and supported by Elizabeth Warren. Everyone is covered for all medical bills. Nobody gets sued for medical costs, nobody has to beg for medical bill money, everybody prepays by ability to pay so there are no costs at the time of service. The US health care system becomes humane, affordable, sustainable and everyone has choice of any participating doctor (90% participate in the current Medicare system). If you want Health Care in the USA to stop being a discriminatory, wasteful, unsustainable, inhumane system, VOTE for SANDERS or WARREN for president. They understand that choice of doctor matters to us all, that administrative costs can be reduced dramatically for all health care professionals when there is one universal, complete plan for all, and that financing can be made fair and sustainable when administered through a tax system rather than literally thousands of health insurance plans, many completely inadequate.