Australia, Canada, most of Western Europe all have tax-payer subsidized healthcare. Is it perfect? Nope...but i can tell you growing up knowing you can get healthcare without any worries, is a right every family deserves. Do US citizens pay taxes? Then they should get healthcare.

How can any western country have parents pay for a leukaemia treatment, specially if you take into account all the amount of money spent in warfare

When I read about Americans getting medical treatment, I always assume their insurance covers it and everybody can have the care they need. But then I realize it's not the same as in other first world countries and I feel sad.

Guys I truly love your country. I ve been to US several times, I worked there on Work and travel program during my University time, etc. But what i truly hate is your healthcare system!!! I know business business business, but everyone should have equal chance to be treated in hospitals. I live in Europe, I am making good money, so according to law in Slovakia i have to pay a lot for healthcare. Am I ill?? No. am I happy that i pay a lot? Hell no :)), but this gives a chance to everyone, homeless, not working, your mum, poor, rich, black, white to be cured for free... well its not perfect, but at least nobody lets you die on the street or heal you and the send you check for 100.000$ so you start thinking that if dead would not be a better option... i dont like socialism as a way of thinking, but sometimes even bad ideas can contain some good things.. and shared healthcare is one of them i believe.

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Pretty standard stuff. What's sad is if he was in his 20's nobody would give a c**p and he'd be dead.

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So, you prefer fund raising or selling drugs like that dude in breaking bad? Choice is all yours

it's happened to me so I guess it can. I think it might mainly happen if you get a new phone with a new number and someone texts that number and thinks it's still attached to someone else though.

I had an entire Jehovah's Witness group texting me. Apparently I got one of the group's leaders old number. He had been in Africa as a missiomary, and cut his phone off. The 1st call sent me in as tailspin. They asked for Bryan. I had just recently lost my husband, whose name happened to be Bryan.i think I was a bit rude. All worked out fine in the end. I kinda missed some of the group texts. LoL

just an addition: I'm not doubting about the gofundme page. All I'm asking is about the 'texting wrong person' type of story.

Surprisingly I receive wrong number texts at least once a year. Somehow I even get pocket called still, which you also wouldn’t think was possible. It’s way less common but I can vouch for it happening to me. Usually just random birthday messages intended for someone else though, nothing interesting.

Alia Ris don't want to be skeptic or rude myself but I thought the same

@Alia Ris I wondered this same thing. When I get a new phone the first thing I do is transfer my contacts over. I can't ever think of a time when I'd actually punch in someone's phone number to text them. Weird.

I've had my cell number for over a decade and I still get occasional wrong number texts. I had a woman accuse me of borrowing her kitchen table set and never returning it. When I texted back that she had the wrong number, but I hoped she got her table back, she was furious and was adamant that she had checked the number and had just spoken to the borrower a few weeks ago on it.

Maybe it was a person, in her contacts, who had changed their number. I know I've had a couple of people in my contacts who have done that.

I get wrong numbers every so often. If you saved the person’s number wrong, which happens. Or someone changes their number and others don’t know it. It’s easier than you realize

I just got texted by someone I didn't know the other week. It happens

I got a text meant for someone's mother. I don't know how it happened as I've had the same number for a few years. I told him I hope he gets a hold of his mom.

I've had my iPhone for five years (husband and I are dinosaurs and didn't want anything connected to the internet until it got to be impossible to buy a phone that was JUST a phone.) I've had three wrong-number texts and way too many to count wrong-number phone calls. I suppose it works the same way landlines work - when someone disconnects their service, the number is dormant for a certain number of months and then is reissued to a new person? Also - and I know this wouldn't apply to the dress woman because she's young - but some people don't know how to create contacts and still use memorized telephone numbers (I was guilty of that for a bit ... as I said, dinosaur!) In any case, it was a kind thing, so it's worthy of passing on. It also brings up questions concerning US healthcare that people are discussing here, so I suppose that's a good thing as well.

really that's your question

Geeze.... pessimistic much? It's as possible to get a wrong text as it is to get a wrong call.

Ever changed your phone? Are you one of those people who can't afford anything other than a prepaid? Ever added a contact? Ever had a friend change their phone number or swap providers? Ever just been lazy? There is nothing remotely incredulous or unbelievable about a wrong number or misfired text. I've had my boost mobile for over a year. I still get weird texts from those trying to reach the previous number holder.