I wish this were true, but it's not.
She's done tons of better things for medical stuff, but this sounds more like a hyperbolic grand sweeping oversimplification of what she has actually done with donations and efforts.
Doing dirty her good deeds with angelic sounding lies... She was more than we deserved already.
(Not bitching at op! I just detest lies made up for drama)
Wow a broken system. Third world country harder America.
Americans should put up statues of her in their parks instead of old dead racists.
Fred Rogers is the only one in recent memory who could share a spotlight with Dolly Parton.
Huh. Her only charity that I was aware of was the kids books, which, while super cool, amounts to crumbs from someone with that much wealth. I had her filed with other 'philanthropists' whose contributions add up to a small fraction of what they should be paying anyway via taxes, but our laws are shit, so they don't.
Doing charity and not making a scene about it though, huge respect! I wonder what else she was involved in.
I'm thinking my initial reaction was way too crass - apologies for acting shitty.
Healthcare in the US = GoFundMe. None of the real first world countries have this beggar system for health.
Gods dammit, now I'm crying again.
Americans going anti science and then having to pay the bill when they get sick is kinda funny though.
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