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.

  • @TheWeirdestCunt@lemm.ee
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    502 years ago

    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).

    • Samus Crankpork
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      Is it bad I can’t even tell which commonwealth country you’re talking about?

      • Jardthebard
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        192 years ago

        Do you just call everyone pretentious who says something you don’t like? Lol

        • @pinkdrunkenelephants@sopuli.xyzOP
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          He’s misusing the term. What he means is to sound superior, and although I appreciate his spirit – the Europeans and Canadians speaking up are doing so outside of the context of and therefore against the spirit of the question – I think it’s fine, it’s good to have non-Americans with whom to compare responses.

          That is the point of the post. There is something very wrong with this country, isn’t there?

          I don’t have insurance because it’s too expensive and the thought crossed my mind this morning that something like that could actually happen to me, and if it did, I honestly have no idea what I would do. And then I realize that the society around me would get angry at me and morally condemn me if I did commit a crime to save my own life, and that’s when I finally realized that American morality is a fucking sham. It’s all designed to convince its subjects to accept being enslaved and murdered to keep the system going, and that’s wrong. What good is morality if it only costs you and doesn’t benefit you?

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            If you look at higher education, it’s also designed to convince its subjects that killing abroad for oil and economical interests is moral and good. In 2019 a third of Americans still thought the Iraq war was “worth fighting for”. And you’ll notice the question in the Pew research poll. It isn’t “was it moral” or “is it ok we killed 1~3 million people and destabilized and entire region for economic gain”, just “worth fighting for”.

  • FARTYSHARTBLAST
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    Sneak into a country with public healthcare I guess, maybe steal the identity of someone if they won’t treat a stranger.

    • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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      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.

        • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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          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.

    • @Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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      Yes, but it’s misleading. Most bank robbers get cash from the tellers, and not even all of them. You might clear 10k on a really good score. It’s a lot of risk for little reward. You’d have better success with insurance fraud.

  • @FFbob@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • @PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    Create a fake news website and make sure there’s a floating donate button on every page.

    Complain about Klaus Schwab and the WEF and talk about eating bugs and not owning anything.

    Say the donation is for gods army to take on Bill Gates and his Clinton’s.

    Make absolute bank in less than a week. Tried and true. These people aren’t going anywhere so you might as well mine them like the resources they are.

    • Chahk
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      I’d so watch a TV show about that!

  • @bonus_crab@lemmy.world
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    From the usa, safest bet would probably be a heist on an armored vehicle, killing the driver and taking his clothes and belongings and heading to mexico to change the money and get healthcare.

    Or better yet , you might not even need to kill the driver. impersonate or bribe a cop and just pull them over and take the money. Cops did that all the time a few years ago, targeting companies related to weed since its federally illegal, making the transport of the profit on interstate highways vaguely illegal. They still can, but they supposedly dont.

  • dumdum666
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    Pfff… you are probably just someone that scours the internet for new twists and ideas in the name of big Hollywood-Studios since those pesky SAG-AFTRA people refuse to work, huh? /s