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.

  • @[email protected]
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    661 year 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).

    • @Kbobabob
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      So just ignore the question and sound pretentious?

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

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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”.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        That’s a bit unfair. This question is pretty much only relevant to USians and USians should be reminded of that at every possible opportunity. We’re trying to help you, man.

  • Martin
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    471 year ago

    I don’t worry about money since the treatment is free and sick people get money from the government during recovery.

  • FARTYSHARTBLAST
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    231 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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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.

      • aard
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        I think quite a few countries would see “kicking you out whilst battling cancer” as a human rights violation, and would only kick you out after your treatments.

        I was searching for some precedent there - which brought up Bush eliminating cancer treatments for illegal immigrants in 2007. It’s impressive that this war criminal can still disgust me even further.

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          The thing is that, at least for Americans, their country of origin can treat the cancer as well as any European country, and “I’m too poor to live in my own country” is usually not an accepted reason for immigration or asylum.

          There are some countries that have medical treatment visas but those usually require people to pay for the treatment, and while it’s order of magnitude cheaper than US hospitals but for cancer is still not exactly cheap.

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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.

  • ɐɥO
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    I would do nothing. Healthcare is free here

  • @[email protected]
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    191 year ago

    Go to a hospital and get it treated. I assume this is some third world health care bait though, as it’s missing which country the hypothetical is happening in

  • Carighan Maconar
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    181 year ago

    I don’t need money for the treatment. #publichealthcare

  • @TropicalDingdong
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    161 year ago

    I’ve heard that the success rate of bank robberies is far under reported.

    • @Bytemeister
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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
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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.

    • @doppelgangmember
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      Truer than people know in the US Especially the old Florida pill mills

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I don’t think stealing would be the hard part. Selling the goods would be. To steal large sum I guess I will drive a stolen car through a jewellery store’s window. I believe this had fairly high success rate with Romanian gangs doing this many times in France and getting away with it. To steel a car I would look for someone leaving it running while and getting out to for a moment. I think I would be able to find one in a couple of weeks. Than smash the widow, grab what I can and run. Risky but if I’m dying anyway it would be worth trying. Turning it into cash would be very difficult though.

      • @[email protected]
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        51 year ago

        Where I live police monitors those things. They will even check pawn shop inventory for jewellery reported as stolen and you have to show an ID to pawn anything. You would have to sell it to some random guys on the street which would be risky.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    Divorce my wife, quit working and get state funded insurance. We still keep her income and I can get treatment without sinking my entire family. Something something capitalist dystopia.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    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.