Claim: Chinese leukemia patient livestreams to pay for treatment.
Verdict: SUPPORTS

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title: Guo Mei
text: of Jining serious radiation accidents and extremely severe bone marrow and intestinal radiation 2006 Developed an original creativity of microtransplantation for the treatment of leukemia. This technology opens up new opportunities for treating leukemia in world. From 2010 to 2015, she took part in 12 projects of national 863 and provincial projects. As the first applicants, she took five scientific research projects, including the National Ministry of science and Technology Department project, National 11th Five-Year Plan key project of scientific and technological and National 12th Five-Year Plan key project of scientific and technological. Her accomplishments include over 100 published research

title: Microtransplantation
text: GVHD was observed in any of the patients. The positive results have also been verified by healthcare centers in Italy, America, Spain, etc. Led by Dr. Huisheng Ai and his medical team at MST International Clinic for Leukemia in the 307th Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army located in Beijing, multicenter collaborative study on Microtransplantation has started since 2013 in 9 authoritative blood institutes from China, Duke University and Keck School of Medicine-University of Southern California in United States, University of Sydney in Australia and University of Montreal in Canada. To overcome the intolerable severe reactions of high-dose chemotherapy and

title: HIV/AIDS in China
text: for leaking an internal government report on the Henan AIDS crisis. In early December 2006, it was reported that a group of 19 people who contracted HIV from tainted blood transfusions at a hospital in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang were awarded 20 million yuan (US$2.5 million) in compensation. The landmark case involves the largest single group stricken by HIV in China. Eighteen of the victims will receive a one-off payment of $25,500 from the hospital and additional monthly payments of $380. Payment will go to the family of the one victim who has already died from AIDS. The process

title: Chen Saijuan
text: has made important discoveries in the pathogenesis of leukemia and developed therapies to treat acute promyelocytic leukemia (APL) and other types of leukemia. Chen was born in May 1951 in Yinzhou District, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. During the early Cultural Revolution, she was forced to quit school and work in a textile factory at age 17. She was able to enter Shanghai Second Medical College a few years later, in 1972, and worked at Ruijin Hospital after graduating in 1975. When graduate research was resumed after the Cultural Revolution, Chen was accepted in 1978 by the renowned hematologist Wang Zhenyi as

title: Zhang Tingdong
text: Taiyn at the Heilongjiang medical reports. They used "cancer injection" (also called "1st cancer spirit") in the treatment of 6 cases of patients with chronic myeloid leukemia. They used arsenic trioxide as the main ingredient, with some trace "pink powder (mercury chloride)". After the treatment, 6 patients with symptoms have improved, including a chronic leukemia acute patients as well. They also mentioned that arsenic trioxide is effective in treating acute leukemia. Zhang Tingdong Zhang Tingdong (; born in November 8, 1932) is a Chinese medical scientist, pharmaceutical chemist, and educator in Harbin Medical University, 1st affiliated Hospital, and is best

title: Ashley Kirilow
text: at benefit concerts, organized on her behalf. Kirilow visited children in hospital, receiving cancer treatment. Commentators speculated about the effect her Facebook fraud would have on other charities' online donations. On October 13, 2010, Linda Nguyen reported on the efforts to raise funds for experimental treatment for Alexis Wronzberg, a young Toronto area woman who suffers from a rare form of Leukemia. Wronzberg needed $300,000 for haplo-identical stem-cell therapy. Wronzberg's father described concerns that Kirilow's fraud would discourage donations to their fund. He said their fears did not materialize. Nguyen also quoted a spokeswoman for the Canadian Cancer Society, who

title: High-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant
text: court case, "Fox v. Health Net". changed the existing policy of HMOs toward paying for the treatment. A public-school teacher named Nelene Hiepler Fox (January 9, 1953 – April 22, 1993) was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1991. She requested her HMO to pay for High-Dose Chemotherapy and Bone Marrow Transplant (HDC/BMT) to treat her cancer. Her health maintenance organization, Health Net, declined her request, stating this therapy was an unproven, experimental therapy. Fox's brother, Mark Hiepler, took her HMO, Health Net, to court to force them to pay for HDC/BMT, which they had refused to do. Despite raising $220,000

title: Janet Liang
text: Medical Center. That year, she founded Helping Janet, a grassroots initiative aimed at mobilizing ethnic minority communities to register their marrow in 2009, with the help of her friends. Helping Janet became a global movement, reaching out to Asians across the United States and the Chinese-speaking regions of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore, by utilizing social media. The organization has since registered over 20,000 new donors and found 18 matches for blood cancer patients. On January 21, 2012, while at the hospital, Liang uploaded a video plea on YouTube asking Americans, particularly those of Chinese descent, to register for

title: Another Promise
text: Sang-gu and his family, along with their attorney and other families of leukemia patients, are soon shaken up as the company uses different methods of appeasement and pressure to keep the families from uniting, among them offering money to keep the issue from becoming public. Jinsung workers also spy on the families of the plaintiffs, stalk them and threaten them, all for the sake of their company, which they genuinely believe to be in the right. People become reluctant to be a witness for trial, either because of their loyalty to the company or for the well being of their

title: Tzu Chi
text: to waive tuition for selected courses, in addition to providing full scholarships for qualified Taiwan aborigine students. Tzu Chi created a bone marrow registry, the Tzu Chi Bone Marrow Bank, in 1993 after a young follower of Cheng Yen was diagnosed with Leukemia. Cheng Yen referred to the concept of bone marrow donation as a way to "save a life without harming yourself." This effort to register bone marrow donors from an organization with such massive membership like Tzu Chi caused Taiwan to change its laws regarding organ donations. This registry became a division of the new Tzu Chi Stem

title: 307 Hospital
text: department provides medical service to over 20,000 patients annually. The Hematology Department treatment centers include the Bone Marrow Transplant Center, Radiology Center, and Blood Collection and Donation Center. Here, more than one thousand leukemia patients have received the conventional bone marrow transplant. In 2004, Huisheng Ai, the director of the Hematology Department, initially developed microtransplantation whose advantage is requiring the HLA mismatched donor instead of the HLA matched donor which is the first obstacle for patients to receive treatment. With the research step-by-step, microtransplantation technology has matured and been approved by the clinical studies with its high survival rate, less

title: High-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant
text: between someone and their potential cure was money, which health insurance companies did not want to spend to cover the treatment. This led to many people having the wrong impression of HDC/ABMT, which in reality, was a treatment that was not supported by clinical trials. As a result, patients pushed for the treatment to be administered more widely and to be covered by insurance companies. The reluctance of insurance organizations to pay for the HDC/BMT treatment stemmed from the difference in patients'/doctors' and researchers' opinions of the treatment. Academic researchers wanted to wait for the results of the clinical trials,

title: Guo Mingyi
text: was noted for his diligence and commitment to work, as well as his philanthropic works. These included attending his work two hours early every day for 15 years, many blood donations, campaigns to find bone marrow donors for children with leukemia and donating significant amounts of money to fund poor children's education, despite his own low earnings. He continues to live with his family in a single room, 40 square metre apartment that he first moved into in the 1980s. He has been offered improved accommodation but passed it up so that other colleagues could get better housing. For these

title: Chen Shu-chu
text: Hospital and Mackay Memorial Hospital Taitung Branch to set up "Ms. Chen Shu-chu Medical Fund for Poor and Cancer Patients" and "Ms. Chen Shu-chu Medical Fund for Charities," respectively. The two insurance policies are worth NTD$16,000,000. The money will be paid by the insurer upon the death of Shu-chu Chen. Shu-chu Chen did not want to participate in the banquet in the US hosted by Time at first, but the President of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou called encouraging her to attend the event. President Ma let her know that the government would afford all the spending of this journey. Ma even

title: Fan Bingbing
text: her lack of activity on social media after 23 July. She broke the silence on 3 October 2018 by apologizing to the public for tax evasion after the Chinese authorities ordered her and her companies to pay about 883 million yuan (USD 127.4 million) in taxes and penalties to avoid criminal prosecution. Heart Ali, a project started by Fan and Chen Lizhi (the general manager of Beijing Maxtimes Culture Development Co.Ltd), is aimed at helping children suffering from congenital heart disease in Ngari Prefecture in Tibet. Fan has visited them several times with medical teams to identify children in need

title: Forced abortion of Feng Jianmei
text: Subsequently, Deng returned home and decided to negotiate with local authorities. On July 10, the family agreed to settle out of court for 70,600 yuan (~$11,200 USD). Additionally, the township agreed to pay Feng's medical bills if she contracted a disease from the abortion. "I've given up legal appeals and agreed to take the compensation offered by the township government," Deng remarked. "We just want our normal life back." He added, "It has never been about the money. As ordinary people, we can no longer take the pressure from all sides of the society". Zhang said the family gave up

title: HIV/AIDS in Taiwan
text: foreign nationals to pay in full for their treatment. Other STIs and illnesses were covered under National Health Insurance during this time of debate. Criticism of reducing coverage and expecting HIV/AIDS-related treatments to be paid by the individuals, included that it further promoted the faulty idea that HIV/AIDS contraction is the fault of the individual. Currently, HIV/AIDS patients are eligible for organ transplants. Plans exist to allow HIV/AIDS positive patients to donate organs to other HIV/AIDS positive patients by the end of 2016. Until March 2016, HIV/AIDS patients were "ineligible to receive organ transplants, including transplants of the heart, lungs,

title: Oncology Care Model
text: Joe Biden's Cancer Moonshot Summit. Physicians and Hospitals can earn $160 per patient per month for an entire 6 months which begins at the initiation of chemotherapy treatment. In order to qualify for these payments, the practice has to continually meet the following six care-standards: In order to receive performance-based payments, the practices must demonstrate a lowered spending per treatment episode when compared to benchmark standards. The benchmark is determined through the use of a risk-adjustment of expenditures compared to "a historical baseline period trended forward to the current performance period." The program requires that practices report the outcome of

title: High-dose chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant
text: 47 were successful. The legislatures of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, and Minnesota mandated insurance coverage for all high-dose chemotherapy with ABMT or peripheral blood stem cell (PBSCT) transplant for women with breast cancer. The media, both newspapers and television, played an important role in promoting HDC/ABMT to people, especially through their portrayals of women with breast cancer, which ignited public protests and prompted legislative change that mandated insurance coverage of HDC/ABMT. For example, the "Boston Globe" published a story regarding Charlotte Turner, a woman with breast cancer whose HMO would not pay for her treatment, which spurred the lobbying of

title: Shuping Scholarship
text: receive prompt treatment. Afterwards, those who could pay but could not get the cash ready in time, would return to thank the benefactors and repay the money paid on their behalf. This work required a lot of administrative help, visiting the patients in the hospitals, check their progress, visit the patient's family, manage the accounts, compile monthly report to the directors, and taking charge of payments. For this Koo turned to the Scholars. To his great delight and comfort, he was overwhelmed with volunteers. As all of the Scholars were from poor families, they were particularly understanding towards the patients