[jokull]

I'm on the monthly donation to Watsi, which is another product they don't mention in the article. I don't pick people to cure like the article suggests.

They do send me emails about patients that I've contributed to. But I don't know who they are ahead of time. It's kind of a gimmick I guess, but a useful way to retain contributors by reminding them what their money is going towards.

I believe their model is to raise from investors to cover overheads, but donations go directly to treatments. You have an assurance (as far as those go) that what you donate is not paying salaries of management. That hopefully has a propensity to make the operation more frugal and efficient.

A useful reading if you want to understand what happens if a patient is "not picked":

https://watsi.org/faq#what-if-a-profile-isn-t-funded