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Daughter Defends 81-Year-Old Dad After GoFundMe Cancels His $745K Cancer Fundraiser

In an ideal world, everyone would have access to universal healthcare. In the real world, far too many people rely on loans, crowdfunding, and extra jobs to pay for basic medical treatment.

But Don Johnson, an 81-year-old delivery driver from Texas, couldn’t even catch a break when his family managed to raise over $745,000 through GoFundMe to help pay for his wife’s cancer care.

The organization abruptly pulled the plug on the fundraiser, claiming the family made serious “factual misrepresentations” about who set up the page.

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