: 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.