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Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Fraud Lurks As Dark Threat In Age Where Digital Crowdfunding For Medical Costs Is Commonplace
GoFundMe pages to help cover medical costs crop up daily, but how can anyone be sure the money is actually going to a good cause?
It was a small town, so small that it wasn鈥檛 officially a town, but a village tucked inside the municipality of Greenburgh. Occupying 1 square mile, and counting only 4,600 souls, it was a commuter鈥檚 dream: a tight-knit hamlet just north of Manhattan, seemingly immune from 21st-century isolation. As the deputy fire chief put it, 鈥淵ou know, it鈥檚 like living in a fishbowl. Everybody knows what鈥檚 going on.鈥 (Boodman, 11/1)
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