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When friend groups become informal healthcare funding networks

Our friend group has been sharing a GoFundMe rotation for the past year — someone's always crowdfunding for insulin, emergency room bills, mental health treatment — and we're all exhausted but no one wants to be the person who says they can't keep giving.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Community care becomes unsustainable when the community itself is under-resourced.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Body in poverty — health as class condition?”

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