A LOT of people.


You know, for all of the money that's spent on programs/endeavors that make no sense or are robbed blind every year we could send this guy to a million doctors. Tens of millions of doctors!

eh, i am not sure i follow. my point was that maybe if he was allowed the opportunities others have, like education or job training or re-training, he'd not be out of work still and would have the health care he needs.

indeed, he suffered enough as it is but then this had to happen to him. makes me feel bad for the guy.

this, sort of bring me to what DarthRavanger said about my comment earlier being a little presumptive when i said, assumed, etc that he wouldn't qualify for MediShare. after seeing the report about this--i have not even read the article when i posted that--a report that used http://api.ning.com/files/nPe**tjwGOfs21UFHaAAw5RdO7HM372lvQo*-JbIJNAXEyptTyX2DULHg7mg3jEvHCYoi9gdzYqg2e4AeYzNyKyuGq92fnQk/ht_richard_verone_ll_110620_wg.jpg picture instead, it just hit me just how bad of me it was to pass a judgment on anyone. putting a human face on anything does make one wise in actions and words, i feel so bad right now about the things i said

this is stupid. all he would have had to do is go to the emergency room. they CANNOT turn you away. he would have gotten a bill but its an open secret that hospitals automatically write off some of the bills as never going to be paid which is one of the reasons the bills are so high to being with.

prison overcrowding is an issue that is very relevant today. as long as he is in jail then that means the odds of some violent offender being released early goes up. there was absolutely no reason for him to do it this way.

edit: i just looked up NC benefits and it sounds like they have something similar to badger care in wisconsin. the only requirement is that like other welfare to work systems you have to be enrolled in some sort of job training program..free school...nice. i think this guy just wants to milk the cow for all its worth. no sympathy for him whatsoever.

they CAN turn you away, the only time they can't turn you away is when it's someone is in a life threatening condition. painful growths don't count as life threatening

Why would they release a violent criminal early and not some minor offender like him? I'm not American so I don't know how that system works.

ER's are overcrowded because they're full of people with non emergency conditions who can't afford a GP.

I won't get into the political side of things, I think both positions have their merits, it's just such a big problem that anyway you try and tackle it will takes years or decades to see serious results.

You know something's wrong when people are doing this.

I am lucky enough to have free health care, and its good too. If you work at UPS for 1 year, you get free dental, health, optical, i believe disability and possibly some other things, i can't remember. In addition to that, I'm still on my parents' health care plan until I'm 26 (I'm 20) so I have two policies covering me.

painful growths in his chest area are going to get him into the emergency room. my grandmother had oodles of bills that piled up from the hospital because medicare only covers 80% of it. i tried to pay off some of them but there was no way i could afford to pay them all off. thats when i found out that they deliberately overinflate the bills assuming they will only get a percentage back. the insurance companies actually require them to do it that way.

as i said earlier it looks like north carolina has medical benefits set up. you just have to be looking for work and/or taking job training classes.

as far as releasing him instead of some other criminal he has already said in court that he will do it again and if NC is a three strikes state at some point he will have to be put in jail permanently.

his statement about staying in jail until hes eligible for medicare is very telling. he sounds like a leech to me.

Its even more sad how long its been like that and will probably for a loooong time and maybe forever.

The U.S. health care system is long one of the major reasons I planned on moving to Canada anyways. Makes no sense for me to raise a family with the horrific mess that situation is and a joke of a healthcare system. Now that I'm out of it, doesn't bother me as much (not my problem anymore), but it sure as hell did when my sister with leukemia was denied coverage for chemo and bone marrow transplant on three private insurances she was covered on because of pre-existing conditions, ultimately the state stepping in to pay for it, and her suing all three insurances. In the end she did beat leukemia after the fourth bone marrow transplant no thanks to said private insurance, which can get bent. The fact that this guy has to rob a bank just to get coverage is one of the many ways people are choosing between compromising health or their finances.

I like our healthcare system :shrug:

Yeah that's an interesting and sad story at the same time. I'm grateful medical care is free (well, we pay taxes) here. America really need to sort out their healthcare system, although due to politics and the way people think I doubt there will be a change.

Obama's Healthcare bill. I'm not saying it's going to fix everything, but something has changed.

But let's move away from politics

Stories like this remind me why, despite its flaws, the NHS is such a good idea.

Yeah, 60% of Americans oppose that bill, not very popular

I do feel for this guy. Can't afford a doctor so he does this elaborate scheme. I hope he gets aquitted as he did this out of desperation.

But, I love America's system. Obama Care won't stand in court very long (well, at least I hope not). The problem with universal healthcare is that is adds many new problems and issues that are in many cases worse than the problems in America's system, so its not all cut and dry.

How can you love America's system when it's so inferior to other European systems? Serious question. You won't find ONE person here homeless or dying with no access to healthcare, thus it makes it superior to America's system just on these 2 grounds.

This is ridiculous. I'm sick of how deserving people are turned down while politicians with their lobbyist money are living the life.
Almost as pathetic is the teller having a near heart attack from being asked for one dollar. Jesus.

I've dealt with both: for all the NHS's flaws, I'd take them over an insurer any day.

this makes me really happy with the Dutch healthcare system.
Sad that people have to resort to those kind of drastic actions to get better, survival of the fittest smartest i guess.