How health care works: When sick, tack up a poster for a fundraiser at a local cafe

Photo: MnIndy, Chris Steller

Ed Kohler, who blogs at The Deets, put it simply in a tweet last week:

Posters in pizza joints advertising fundraisers for people with medical bills is our current health care system. 

The inspiration, Kohler tells the Minnesota Independent: four such posters he saw on a single bulletin board at Sammy’s Pizza in Hibbing. One was to help a woman suffering from leukemia, he recalls. And he noticed a coffee can on the counter at the Little Store in Moose Lake, collecting donations for a boy who was in a severe accident. 

The photo above shows a poster at the Dairy Queen in McGregor, also raising funds for a child who was severely injured in an accident. The event was on Saturday, but you can make a donation in tribute to her at caringbridge.com.