<story><title>Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help</title><url>http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amix</author><text>I donated $50, but I really wish US (and other countries) would reconsider their broken healthcare systems. My dad died of cancer a few years ago and I am really glad we lived in Denmark when he got it - - with a great public healthcare system. He lived 2 years with his cancer, which is a lot when you are counting days. Not many normal people can afford these things (as each of my dads treatments cost about 20.000USD+ and he had a lot of them).&lt;p&gt;Also, just yesterday DHH posted this:
&amp;quot;Top income tax rate for California residents is 51.6%. Top for Danish residents is 51.7%. (Kicking at $500k+ vs $70K+, though).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Which puts things in perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>overgard</author><text>I donated $100, and yeah, our healthcare system is a goddamn travesty. I don&amp;#x27;t get it. If you&amp;#x27;re fortunate to live long enough, the one thing that&amp;#x27;s &lt;i&gt;guaranteed&lt;/i&gt; to eventually happen is you&amp;#x27;re going to get sick in a very expensive manner. It&amp;#x27;s not an &amp;quot;if&amp;quot; question, it&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;when&amp;quot; question. I don&amp;#x27;t think that should mean financial ruin. People against universal healthcare must think they&amp;#x27;re just immune to ever getting sick or something.</text></comment>
<story><title>Richard Lynch, an awesome PHP community guy and former colleague needs our help</title><url>http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>amix</author><text>I donated $50, but I really wish US (and other countries) would reconsider their broken healthcare systems. My dad died of cancer a few years ago and I am really glad we lived in Denmark when he got it - - with a great public healthcare system. He lived 2 years with his cancer, which is a lot when you are counting days. Not many normal people can afford these things (as each of my dads treatments cost about 20.000USD+ and he had a lot of them).&lt;p&gt;Also, just yesterday DHH posted this:
&amp;quot;Top income tax rate for California residents is 51.6%. Top for Danish residents is 51.7%. (Kicking at $500k+ vs $70K+, though).&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Which puts things in perspective.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>piratebroadcast</author><text>My mom just got diagnosed with extensive small cell lung cancer (thats spread to her brain) and I am fucking terrified about whats going to happen to us financially. I can&amp;#x27;t even focus completely on my mother as a person because I&amp;#x27;m wondering about the bills, then I feel bad for worrying. It fucking sucks.</text></comment>