EFF Co-Founder Announces Benefit Concert to Pay His Medical Bills (twitter.com)

An anoymous Slashdot reader reports: "I was dead for about 8 mins. on Wed. eve," EFF co-founder John Perry Barlow posted last year on Facebook. "total cardiac arrest...sad to report, no Ascending Light." The cyber-rights activist told the San Francisco Chronicle that he had gone "down the tunnel of eternity and it turned out to be a cheap carnival ride." He paused for a moment. "Probably not cheap, though."

Yesterday Barlow posted a Twitter update announcing a big benefit concert in Mill Valley, California to help pay his mounting medical bills on Monday, October 24th. Performers will include Bob Weir (also of The Grateful Dead), Jerry Harrison (of The Talking Heads), Lukas Nelson, Members of The String Cheese Incident, Sean Lennon and Les Claypool, plus 85-year-old folk singer Ramblin' Jack Elliott, as well as "special guests."
Barlow's family describes the last 18 months as a "medical incarceration" with "a dizzying array of medical events and complications" that has depleted his savings and insurance benefits. They've also set up a site for donations from "his fellow innovators, artists, cowboys, and partners-in-crime, to help us provide the quality of care necessary for Barlow's recovery."

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Re:The Trumpites

[quantaman]

The Trump crowd is at play

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/us/mosque-attack-thwarted-kansas/index.html

Don't bother, terrorist plots are only major news if they're done by Muslims.

Re:Why not covered by insurance?

[jedidiah]

> And yet countries like Canada where I live

You have inferior care that gets people killed. You have arbitrary limits on expensive care that are a death sentence. You have delays in care that are deadly or crippling.

You don't develop the interesting new treatments. You just whine after someone else does that they're too expensive.