GoFundMe Profits from People’s Pain w/ Nora Kenworthy
05 30 24
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GoFundMe Profits from People’s Pain
Nora Kenworthy
Notes
Paris Marx is joined by Nora Kenworthy to discuss how people rely on GoFundMe to access healthcare and the further inequities that adds to an already deeply unequal healthcare system.
Guest
Nora Kenworthy is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare and an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell.
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Links
- Nora is doing an online event with the Debt Collective on June 13.
- GoFundMe bought many of its competitors through the 2010s.
- In 2020, GoFundMe posted in a campaign it set up in response to Covid: “We’re in a growth industry: pain.”