A seven-year-old child from Alabama has been forced by the machine of American Capitalism to set up a fundraiser in order to pay for her own brain surgery. Liza Scott set up her own private business earlier at her mother’s bakery shop to collect pocket money to buy more toys, although things turned out differently. Last year, the girl suffered from a series of seizures and was forced to consult a health specialist.
Liza was diagnosed with a life-threatening ailment, a cerebral malfunction, this requires immediate medical attention. According to sources of the Associated Press, as the family struggled to put together enough money to afford their daughter a complex brain surgery, the child stepped up to help raise funds of her own by infusing creativity to her side business ran out of her mom’s bakery, no longer funding toys and other childhood wants, the money from the sales are now going towards her brain surgery.
Despite having health insurance, the girl set up an online fundraiser page as the brain surgery would incur expenses that might not be covered under her health insurance policy. “Pretty exorbitant” expenses, the mother of the ailing child described. “Just one week in the hospital and the ambulance rides is more than my monthly salary, and that’s without the surgery and travel expenses,” Elizabeth noted. “I can’t fund that by myself, and we have a business to support.”
There is little more disheartening than hearing a child is having to rely on money from their lemonade stand sells, and the generosity of strangers, to afford life saving surgery. The machine that grinds us all would be more than happy to prolong her wait, or just flat out not cover the surgery, sticking the family with the debt, and making things worse while applying more and more red tape. No child should have to come to terms with being diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, and also have to worry about being able to afford treatment. No person should, and yet the grind of Capitalism lets this happen day in and day out.
Is this what we want to leave our future generations?