According to the GoFundMe page author, Heather Jones, who is also taking care of the Daytona, donations will cover medical ...

Of the $5 billion GoFundMe says it has raised, about one-third has been for medical expenses. The company's CEO says that "saddens me." ...

In fact, you might have contributed to one; 22 percent of American adults report donating to GoFundMe medical campaigns. As of 2021, approximately $650 million, or about one-third of all funds… ...

GoFundMe as health insurance: Why so many Americans turn to crowdfunding for medical care. About a third of all GoFundMe campaigns are for medical bills, but just 12 per cent of them succeed.

I would love nothing more than for “medical” to not be a category on GoFundMe. The reality is, though, that access to health care is connected to the ability to pay for it.

A dog in Daytona Beach, Fla., has been rescued after it was found injured and abandoned in an apartment complex’s trash ...

From 2016 through 2020, the number of medically-related GoFundMe campaigns increased from 37,824 up to 196,955. Yet, 16% of them didn’t even receive any donations ...

GoFundMe’s overall pool of medical campaigns also includes fundraising for mass tragedies like Hurricane Harvey, and the Orlando and Las Vegas shootings.

GoFundMe has become a go-to platform for patients trying to escape expensive medical bills. In 2020, the number of U.S. campaigns for medical causes was 25 times higher than it was in 2011, one ...

There are a reported 250,000 GoFundMe campaigns per year related to medical costs, the largest category on the site, and an analysis by the personal finance site NerdWallet found that nearly half ...

Madison Russo, 19, from Iowa, has been charged with felony theft for allegedly scamming donors out of more than $37,000 by lying for close to a year that she had pancreatic cancer and leukemia.

The problem is with the basic premise behind GoFundMe and others similar services, including Rally, YouCaring, and Indiegogo Life.Anyone can start a fund-raiser, but the sites don't guarantee the ...