As of late Friday morning, her campaign with the New York-based nonprofit had raised nearly $140,000 of her $150,000 goal, amid a climate in which an estimated 100 million Americans are saddled with a total of about $195bn in medical debt.

The US does not offer a universal healthcare system for its citizens.

Dying woman’s last wish is to raise US medical profit by 15m?

Now this “uplifting” story really has it all. Death, loss, a system of injustice and the sense that even if successful after all is done it will not even address a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the outstanding medical debt.

The only thing more “uplifting” about this would be that one country keeps thinking these stories are not keeping people up at night.