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GoFundMe has become a health care utility

In its early years, GoFundMe funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now it has become a go-to platform for patients trying to escape medical billing nightmares. (Eric Harkleroad/KFF Health News/TNS)
In its early years, GoFundMe funded honeymoon trips, graduation gifts, and church missions to overseas hospitals in need. Now it has become a go-to platform for patients trying to escape medical billing nightmares. (Eric Harkleroad/KFF Health News/TNS)
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In 2020, the annual number of U.S. campaigns related to medical causes was 25 times the number of such campaigns on the site in 2011.
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