In a society where health care is not universal, people have to ask other people for financial help with major medical expenses.
The concept has morphed from bake sales and car washes to online crowdfunding.
Enter the Children's Organ Transplant Association. COTA helps families pull together the money--often in six figures--required to pay for organ transplants and followup care.
We meet the mother of a child awaiting funding and transplant, and the volunteer coordinator for another child, both from the Rogue Valley.