$1 Bank Robbery To Get Healthcare
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/ju ... healthcare
US man stages $1 bank robbery to get state healthcare
Unemployed and without health insurance, man in North Carolina has himself arrested in order to receive treatment
Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 June 2011
It was not perhaps the most obvious way of getting a bad back, arthritis and a dodgy foot seen to. But if you're unemployed in North Carolina with no health insurance, there is no obvious way.
So on 9 June James Verone left his Gastonia home, took a ride to a bank and carried out a robbery. Well, sort of.
What he did was hand the clerk a note that said: "This is a bank robbery, please only give me one dollar." Then, as he later told the local NBC news station, he calmly sat in the corner of the bank having told the clerk: "I'll be sitting right over there in the chair waiting for the police."
Before his peculiarly modest robbery, Verone, 59, sent a letter to the Gaston Gazette. "When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body."
He invited the paper to send a reporter to interview him in Gaston county jail, where he is now in custody facing charges of stealing from a person (for just $1 the prosecutors didn't think they could hold up a bank robbery charge).
He told the paper he had lost his job after 17 years as a Coca-Cola delivery man, and with it his health insurance. He was in increasing pain from slipped discs, arthritic joints, a gammy foot and a growth on his chest.
Since being in the jail he has attained his goal: he has been seen by nurses and an appointment with a doctor is booked.
US man stages $1 bank robbery to get state healthcare
Unemployed and without health insurance, man in North Carolina has himself arrested in order to receive treatment
Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 June 2011
It was not perhaps the most obvious way of getting a bad back, arthritis and a dodgy foot seen to. But if you're unemployed in North Carolina with no health insurance, there is no obvious way.
So on 9 June James Verone left his Gastonia home, took a ride to a bank and carried out a robbery. Well, sort of.
What he did was hand the clerk a note that said: "This is a bank robbery, please only give me one dollar." Then, as he later told the local NBC news station, he calmly sat in the corner of the bank having told the clerk: "I'll be sitting right over there in the chair waiting for the police."
Before his peculiarly modest robbery, Verone, 59, sent a letter to the Gaston Gazette. "When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body."
He invited the paper to send a reporter to interview him in Gaston county jail, where he is now in custody facing charges of stealing from a person (for just $1 the prosecutors didn't think they could hold up a bank robbery charge).
He told the paper he had lost his job after 17 years as a Coca-Cola delivery man, and with it his health insurance. He was in increasing pain from slipped discs, arthritic joints, a gammy foot and a growth on his chest.
Since being in the jail he has attained his goal: he has been seen by nurses and an appointment with a doctor is booked.
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He then explained that he'd needed health care once and didn't have insurance so he had to go and lie about how much he made to get some assistance program.
He then railed against health care legislation because "I shouldn't have to pay for anyone else's insurance..."
And didn't realize we'd paid for his.
(but don't call the baggers stupid... they get upset.)
Universal healthcare is the only way to go.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Yes! And it's a bloody shame that we don't have it here.
-Eddie Vedder, "Smile"
this has been done for years, more by homeless people
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
So your perfectly fine with me going into a business or someone house and taking something I don't have/can't afford? Maybe he should put his time and effort into getting another job that could provide insurance instead of commiting a crime. Who is going to hire him now that he has a felony?
Maybe, but not the way Barry's pulling it off. How again are we going to afford it?
Yeah, I knew the homeless have been doing this, but I think it was more for a place to live and care. Now people are doing it purely for the health benefits.
What the fuck passed? Has anyone figured this out yet?
some people think
60 year olds who have worked most of their lives
shit jobs
hard labor
who gives coca-cola 17 years of his life
17 years in which coca-cola probably made billions
who gets laid off
and ends up homeless
after working for 40+ years in his 1 life
some people actually think
the only way this guy deserves free medical aid
is if
at 59 years old
with a bad back and other medical issues
he can find employment that offers healthcare
makes me fuckin sick
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"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
In it's current over-reaching form, definitely.
You would make a lousy parent/father...
You make it sound as if its perfectly fine to commit crimes because you don't have something you think you sould be entitled to???
and you have no right to judge me as a father. i actually have plenty to say about that, and your parenting style, but i will keep that off of the board.. because i see the world differently than you does not make me a lousy parent. one of the reasons i will send my children to public school is so they would not have to be exposed to people with your version of family values. i work with a lot of private school kids at my job every day. the rich, spolied brats who think they are better than everyone else. we refer to them as "Spalding", like the priveleged brat from caddyshack...
the bottom line is if we do not help the poor, the poor will take from the rich, and go to jail so that all of us have to take care of them anyway. i think jesus would say the same...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I know you would hate my family values - which is personal responsibility... Thats a foreign term to you..
So your allowed to address the private school kids you work with and generalize and thats how you form your opinion, yet when I talk about the public school inner city kids my wife works with (which is much more than you) my opinion is invalid... You are the most hypocritical post I have ever communicated with... Please have some consistancy please. And please explain why you think just handing someone money (who has no education on how to save, earn it) is helping them?
This.
as far as education goes, i am assuming that the private education you are speaking of is some sort of faith based school. i am sure that jesus would not agree with most of your positions on these issues, but that is something that you will have to take up with him, if you believe that sort of thing. private schooling is not a necessity.
personal responsibility is not a foreign term to me, but thanks for proving my earlier point.
i happen to live in a reality where not everyone has personal responsibility. i do not get upset about it, actually i like to help people who are down on their luck. i am not sure what insular society you live in or what utopia you are hoping for, but any resemblance between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
i have stated i have worked at a school as their athletic trainer with a very high concentration of uninsured, publicly insured, and kids below the poverty line. do not try to act like i have not seen poverty. i have seen kids who have had to have a fundraiser held in their honor so they can raise money for the acl reconstruction he needed to play football in college. your wife is not some hero because she sees things like this. this is what we do in a society. we help each other. most of us on here have worked with poor and underpriveleged people.
and how am i the most hypocritical person on here? i stay true to my convictions, and i do not go about qualifying things. fact is, we need universal health care, and until we ge it, these things will continue to happen. and in all honsety i find it quite funny that people get angry about it when a man commits a crime to go to jail where he can have health care. doesn't taht strike you that there is a serious problem with our health care system in this country? where a man can steal $1 and go to jail and reap thousands of dollars of tax money for health care, food and shelter?? i see that as resourceful. and if i were an employer i might hire this guy just because of his creativity.
people call me a saint when i give food or money or health care to the poor, but they call me a socialist when i ask why the poor have no food or money or health care...
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
waaaaa....me no wanna pay taxes for things I don't agree with....waaaaaaaa
as I've said before, welcome to Society...thanks for playing...
I think it's stupid, but if you think the risk of getting shanked or sexually assaulted for healthcare is the best plan on the table... have fun! I think I would contact churches and local charities first if it came down to it.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Teach them work ethic?? Are you retarded?? The guy worked with coca-cola for 17 years!! He is 59 years old! You haven't got a fucking clue. Your right wing bias is pathetic. You are so warped in your fucked up bias to see that you are ruining what could be a truly amazing country.
he could have applied for the state run ma program
http://www.ncdhhs.gov/dma/medicaid/index.htm
or gone to a free/sliding fee scale clinic
http://www.ncfreeclinics.org/Getting_He ... linic.aspx
it is probably best just to focus on the political statement rather than utilize the actual services that are out there for people like him
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan
um....I live in NC...
applying does not = coverage...
And the sliding fee scale has been changed to point were it's nearly impossible to get covered...
I guess he should have crossed his fingers, hoped, and died waiting...that way he wouldn't such a lazy teet sucker...
do they not use the FPL guidelines to apply the sliding fee scale?
care to elaborate, I am interested as I work at a sliding fee clinic and i can tell you ours slides to ZERO for most of the people who come in here... is there a base that they slide to for coverage?
i am not asking as a smart ass, I know that eventually our business model will be forced to change and I would like to know how theirs changed
It is terrifying when you are too stupid to know who is dumb
- Joe Rogan