North Carolina Man Robs Store For A Dollar So He Can Get Health Care In Prison For Medical Problems

[SwoleBonds]

A North Carolina man robbed a local store for a dollar just so he could get health care in prison, he said.

James Verone, 59, handed the teller a note demanding $1 and claimed he had a gun, ABC News reported.

He then walked away and sat down, waiting for police.

"I started to walk away from the teller, then I went back and said, I'll be sitting right over there in the chair waiting for the police," he said, according to local television station 9News. "I wanted to make it known that this wasn't for monetary reasons, but for medical reasons."

Verone, who committed the robbery on June 9, does not plan to pay his bail, which was recently reduced to $2,000.
With little money to his name and many medical problems, including a growth on his chest, two ruptured disks and an unidentified problem with his left foot, he said the "robbery" was his last resort.
"The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," he told the Gaston Gazette. "I kind of hit a brick wall with everything."

He calculated that a non-violent crime like the bank hold-up would land him in jail, and even enable him to collect Social Security benefits upon his release.

"I'm sort of a logical person and that was my logic, what I came up with," he said.

On the day he committed the felony, Verone mailed a letter to the Gaston Gazette explaining his logic.

"When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. This robbery is being committed by me for one dollar," he wrote. "I am of sound mind but not so much sound body."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...et_health_care_in_prison_f.html#ixzz1Pvy5p3Ps
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[SwoleBonds]

can u be a little patient big fella help is on it's way

 

[DowntownMickeyBrown]

hno:Sounds like a great plan!:think2:



"The fact that over 1,000 waivers have been granted is a tacit admission that the healthcare law is fundamentally flawed," Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said in March. Upton is one of three House committee chairmen who has used new oversight powers to investigate the annual limit waivers.

It is worth noting that there are 166 union benefits funds now exempted from this requirement, which account for about 40 percent of the exempted workers. This means that although there are only 14.6 million unionized employees in the United States, and 860,000 of them are already exempted from this provision of Obamacare.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs...nt-employees-exempted-obamacare#ixzz1Pw4vlJdN​

 

[Dave007inVegas]

can u be a little patient big fella help is on it's way

Help is on the way? Is the kid standing next to BO going to become a doctor some day?

 

[flashmo]

^^^^^no, it's Gary Coleman, back from the dead..Whatchoo talkin' bout Obama...

 

[texansfan]

Funny how he left out this part of the story.

"The logic, he told the news station, was to get a three-year sentence so he can get out of jail then collect Social Security and then later live in a Myrtle Beach condo."

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/21/man-says-he-robbed-bank-to-get-health-care/?hpt=hp_t2

 

[texansfan]

Just a matter of time before the disaster know as "Obamacare" will be gone. President Pookie will be gone next year as well so the news just gets better.

Maybe the next POTUS can hire Obama and his wife to help clean up the place.

 

[billhill999]

Help is on the way? Is the kid standing next to BO going to become a doctor some day?

The kid looks like he's a biscuit away from 200 lbs.
He's going to need a triple bypass someday.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

The kid looks like he's a biscuit away from 200 lbs.
He's going to need a triple bypass someday.

He is a pudgy little spud, that’s for sure.

 

[roadreeler57]

His story not that unusual...Some go to jail inyentionally for a roof & 3 squares a day & not have to work for a living so why not for medical too?...The stupid ass shouldve gone to California & robbed a bank there instead they powder their inmates asses before they hit the bunk from what I hear..

 

[steaktartar]

His story not that unusual...Some go to jail inyentionally for a roof & 3 squares a day & not have to work for a living so why not for medical too?...The stupid ass shouldve gone to California & robbed a bank there instead they powder their inmates asses before they hit the bunk from what I hear..

you dont know much about prisons then.....head over to cocoran or chino...you wouldnt last 24 hours

 

[snoop]

He is a smart dude.

Can't blame him.

 

[rolltide]

you dont know much about prisons then.....head over to cocoran or chino...you wouldnt last 24 hours

sounds like someone knows what they're talking about. hope you can finally sit down steak

 

[barman]

"Fist"hand experiences do tend to stick with a guy longer

 

[guitarjosh]

From IBD:

Verone had access to free care — outside of jail — and plenty of it.
The dirty secret about our health care system is that it is, in fact, very generous to the poor. A recent study from the N.C. Justice Center notes that North Carolina hospitals provided $694 million in free care in 2008.
Nationwide, hospitals provide more than $34 billion in unpaid care. Then there are all the private charities, Medicaid, and various other state and federal programs that offer the poor and destitute access to care.
A hospital in Gastonia, N.C., — Gaston Memorial Hospital — offers discounts up to 100% to low-income patients. There’s also a free health clinic just five miles from where Verone robbed that bank, and many more in nearby Charlotte.
If he wanted to travel a bit farther, Verone could have availed himself of the state-of-the-art medical facilities at the University of North Carolina, whose mandate is to provide “medically necessary health care to the citizens of North Carolina, regardless of their ability to pay.”
That our hapless bank robber apparently didn’t know about any of this is excusable.
But the fact that not one reporter trafficking this story bothered to point these facts out is an example of gross dereliction of duty or extreme bias — or both.

 

[steaktartar]

sounds like someone knows what they're talking about. hope you can finally sit down steak

no comment

 

[roadreeler57]

From IBD:

Verone had access to free care — outside of jail — and plenty of it.
The dirty secret about our health care system is that it is, in fact, very generous to the poor. A recent study from the N.C. Justice Center notes that North Carolina hospitals provided $694 million in free care in 2008.
Nationwide, hospitals provide more than $34 billion in unpaid care. Then there are all the private charities, Medicaid, and various other state and federal programs that offer the poor and destitute access to care.
A hospital in Gastonia, N.C., — Gaston Memorial Hospital — offers discounts up to 100% to low-income patients. There’s also a free health clinic just five miles from where Verone robbed that bank, and many more in nearby Charlotte.
If he wanted to travel a bit farther, Verone could have availed himself of the state-of-the-art medical facilities at the University of North Carolina, whose mandate is to provide “medically necessary health care to the citizens of North Carolina, regardless of their ability to pay.”
That our hapless bank robber apparently didn’t know about any of this is excusable.
But the fact that not one reporter trafficking this story bothered to point these facts out is an example of gross dereliction of duty or extreme bias — or both.

"Unpaid care" bullshit!....Its paid for by the inflated prices & fees that everybody else has to pay to cover for the ones that dont pay....Same thing as shoplifting....

 

[russ1945]

Funny how he left out this part of the story.

"The logic, he told the news station, was to get a three-year sentence so he can get out of jail then collect Social Security and then later live in a Myrtle Beach condo."

http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/21/man-says-he-robbed-bank-to-get-health-care/?hpt=hp_t2

He left the link marked read more at. Not sure he left it out for any particular reason. Does it make much difference?