: GoFundMe has become a health care utility - By Elisabeth Rosenthal, KFF Health News GoFundMe started as a crowdfunding site for underwriting ideas and dreams, and, as GoFundMe s co-founders, Andrew Ballester and Brad Damphousse, once put it, for life s important moments. In the early years, it funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now GoFundMe has become a go-to platform for patients trying to escape medical billing nightmares.
GoFundMe has become a go-to platform for patients trying to escape expensive medical bills. Medical expenses is the sites most common type of fundraiser. And crowdfunding has become so common that some patient advocates and hospital financial aid officers recommend it as an alternative to being sent to collections. But critics say it's perpetuating socioeconomic disparities.
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