Americans Turn to Crowdfunding to Pay for Prescriptions

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A search for “prescription” on GoFundMe bought up roughly 13,600 results of past and current funding pages. For insulin — both for insulin pumps and the medication itself — there were almost 6,000 results.

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(Source: www.businessinsider.sg)

Lonnie Cucinitti gets choked up when he thinks about all the people in his life who chipped in when he needed money for his four prescriptions.

The 76-year-old Texan launched a GoFundMe page in January with the hopes of collecting enough money to cover his 90-day prescriptions. He shared the fundraiser on his Facebook page, and he started receiving small donations, a few from people he didn’t know. 

Most came from friends he had made while he was in the Navy, whom he’d met more than 50 years ago. 

“It makes me very emotional to think that people I met 50 years ago would care enough to send $50,” he told Business Insider. 

Cucinitti is one of many people who have turned to crowdfunding to cover routine medical expenses. While crowdfunding is mainly used for emergency medical costs, many still turn to sites like GoFundMe for costly…

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