Man Robs Bank of $1 To Get Health Care in Prison
| Tue Jun. 21, 2011 12:56 PM PDT
No, it's not an Onion article. An unemployed, sickly man in North Carolina robbed a bank of a single dollar in hopes of being arrested and receiving free health care in prison. The New York Times relays the story, which seems destined to become a political anecdote about our dysfunctional health care system:
James Verone, an unemployed 59-year-old with a bad back, a sore foot and an undiagnosed growth on his chest, limped into a bank in Gastonia, N.C., this month and handed the teller a note, explaining that this was an unarmed robbery, but she'd better turn over $1 and call the cops. That, he figured, would be enough to get himself
