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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110621/ts_yblog_thel
Some people who need medical care but can't afford it go to the emergency
room. Others just hope they'll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a
bank.
Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk
, walked into a Gaston, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $
1 and medical attention. Then he waited calmly for police to show up.
He's now in jail and has an appointment with a doctor this week.
Verone's problems started when he lost the job he'd held for 17 years as a
Coca Cola deliveryman, amid the economic downturn. He found new work driving
a truck, but it didn't last. Eventually, he took a part-time position at
the convenience store.
But Verone's body wasn't up to it. The bending and lifting made his back
ache. He had problems with his left foot, making him limp. He also suffered
from carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis.
Then he noticed a protrusion on his chest. "The pain was beyond the
tolerance that I could accept," Verone told the Gaston Gazette. "I kind of
hit a brick wall with everything."
Verone knew he needed help--and he didn't want to be a burden on his sister
and brothers. He applied for food stamps, but they weren't enough either.
So he hatched a plan. On June 9, he woke up, showered, ironed his shirt. He
mailed a letter to the Gazette, listing the return address as the Gaston
County Jail.
"When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me,"
Verone wrote in the letter. "This robbery is being committed by me for one
dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body."
Then Verone hailed a cab to take him to the RBC Bank. Inside, he handed the
teller his $1 robbery demand.
"I didn't have any fears," said Verone. "I told the teller that I would sit
over here and wait for police."
The teller was so frightened that she had to be taken to the hospital to be
checked out. Verone, meanwhile, was taken to jail, just as he'd planned it.
Because he only asked for $1, Verone was charged with larceny, not bank
robbery. But he said that if his punishment isn't severe enough, he plans to
tell the judge that he'll do it again. His $100,000 bond has been reduced
to $2,000, but he says he doesn't plan to pay it.
In jail, Verone said he skips dinner to avoid too much contact with the
other inmates. He's already seen some nurses and is scheduled to see a
doctor on Friday. He said he's hoping to receive back and foot surgery, and
get the protrusion on his chest treated. Then he plans to spend a few years
in jail, before getting out in time to collect Social Security and move to
the beach.
Verone also presented the view that if the United States had a health-care
system which offered people more government support, he wouldn't have had to
make the choice he did.
"If you don't have your health you don't have anything," Verone said.
The Affordable Care Act, President Obama's health-care overhaul passed by
Congress last year, was designed to make it easier for Americans in
situations like Verone's to get health insurance. But most of its provisions
don't go into effect until 2014.
As it is, Verone said he thinks he chose the best of a bunch of bad options.
"I picked jail." | g**x
发帖数: 1192 | | s**********d
发帖数: 36899 | 3 说明美国是民主的，浦西的，犯人在监狱都能得到小病的手术。 | m**********n
发帖数: 27535 | 4 这个有经过美国人民的同意吗
【在 s**********d 的大作中提到】
: 说明美国是民主的，浦西的，犯人在监狱都能得到小病的手术。
| w*********r
发帖数: 42116 | 5 当然同意了.
抢$1B WALL STREET CEO
抢$1M MAIN STREET SENATOR
抢$1 JAIL MEDICARE
没见过这么合理的了.
美国不是大陆, 什么都是党和政府给安排好的, 只有自己有PLAN的人才能过好日子.
【在 m**********n 的大作中提到】
: 这个有经过美国人民的同意吗
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