I give to homeless from time to time but you can’t rate all organized charities the same . Some are bad of course but that is why you research the ones you are interested in before you donate.
I do and to each their own. If you want to treat each differently than cool.
This is quite ridiculous. At least Jerillin has an actual reason. You just have utter nonsense.
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Thousands upon thousands of protests carried out by groups and people of all races, colors, and ideologies go off without a hitch each year in the U.S., often without a police presence. No highways are blocked. No one is pulled out of their cars and attacked. No one lays siege to federal courthouses. No police precincts are burned down. No one is chasing whites through streets and parking garages to kick and stomp their bodies and heads in while a laughing participant films it to post to social where others also laugh and applaud what they’re seeing. No Asian-owned stores are burned, or their owners attacked. Blocks of black-owned businesses aren’t sacked and looted. No one loses their lives. No one loses their life’s work.
But when any of that does occur and the people responsible are brought up to face the consequences, yeah, many people are happy about that.
That’s not quite how the Hippocratic oath works unfortunately. Also, if the Hippocratic oath actually was abided by correctly there would be no fees for medical degrees.
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not in the slightest.
a covid facility can’t just start taking in patients of every type.
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Whether his reason is factually accurate is not the point. Jerillin’s reason was grounded in MSF itself and his issues with it-- whether right or wrong.
Setsarec simply hates a man in charge of a parent company for a subsidiary who promotes a charity and he has basically nothing to do with the charity. There is no direct link between Kotick and MSF. It boils down to refusing to support a charity because some guy’s name not connected the charity triggers him so bad.
Therein lies the substantial difference.
When it’s the very act of protesting that’s illegal? Still happy if someone who stands on a corner out of the way holding a sign gets clubbed and arrested?
It’s legal for Americans to protest. Not so much in Hong Kong.
itll be added to the store
as an american the obvious answer is “it depends what kind of insurance they have”, right?
the hippocratic oath is more of what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules
This is true, the Hippocratic Oath is more of a tradition, a custom, a mantra. It’s entirely non-binding.
DwoB uses funds frivolously. As someone who HAS worked with this organization in third world countries I have personally seen this. Large living quarters, air conditioning, huge generators, lavish meals, expensive trucks/cars, big meetings with lots of fluff, etc. I’ll keep my money.
I don’t know, I can see a case being made for each of those as being medically necessary. Especially the huge generators, keeping a surgery cold takes a lot of power, and vaccines that need to be kept subzero are power-hungry too. Are you comparing their living conditions with those of the locals, or of the conditions they’re used to back home? They might think of those meals as less than lavish, or the living quarters as cramped…
What exactly are you referring to? For the poor we have Medicaid. Also If you don’t have health insurance, you still have a right to receive emergency medical care at most hospitals, and the denial of necessary urgent care could form the basis for a medical malpractice lawsuit.
ok let me rephrase, how many Americans choose not get life saving treatments as the costs of it will bankrupt them and their descendants ?
47 yrs old and not once in my life have I ever gotten a bill from a hospital.
When will stupid people realize donations don’t do jack for people, it only lines the pockets of the charities and a very small portion goes to actually helping the problems they claim to support. United way, Cancer charities, Animal rescue charities …they are all the same take your money and give you a tiny donation receipt for your taxes…
… what?
What? And that’s not how personal bankruptcy works.
Of the Americans who do skip care it’s often routine rather than life-saving care, and it’s usually a delay in care rather than simply skipping it altogether.
In deeper dives two major factors that play a role in the delay or avoidance of care is that 1) people don’t know what their care is actually going to cost because pricing is not transparent; and 2) the morass of dealing with the insurance and approval process and the uncertainty whether insurance will actually cover a significant portion of the cost. People often don’t know what their care will cost, they don’t know if insurance will actually cover it even when it will.
See I know the costs … $0 every single time with no insurance except for my provincial insurance that costs me … $0
And that’s why you posted a “but America” false equivalent in response to someone above explaining that he wouldn’t donate to MSF because of something that happened while people in Hong Kong were fighting their looming takeover by China?
Dunno why the donation discussion shifted to China. I don’t care that your 1 friend who decided to break the law wasn’t given care. That doesn’t invalidate the good they do. It’s always the ones who help the least that criticize those who help the most.