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Posted on 08/04/2025 10:33:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A 59-year-old man has been jailed in Gastonia, N.C., on charges of larceny after allegedly robbing an RBC Bank for $1 so he could get health care in prison. Richard James Verone handed a female teller a note demanding the money and claiming that he had a gun, according to the police report.
He then sat down and waited for police to arrive. "… I say, 'I'll be sitting right over here, on the chair, waiting for the police,'" Verone told reporters, recalling the June 9 robbery in an interview from Gaston County Jail.
And wait for the police, he did.
"He's sitting on the sofa as you walk in the front door," the bank teller said in a 911 call.
Police arrested Verone where he sat. He was unarmed.
Verone said he asked for $1 to show that his motives were medical, not monetary, according to news reports. With a growth in his chest, two ruptured disks and no job, Verone hoped a three-year stint in prison would afford him the health care he needed.
“I'm sort of a logical person and that was my logic, what I came up with," Verone told reporters. "If it is called manipulation, then out of necessity because I need medical care, then I guess I am manipulating the courts to get medical care."
But the charge of larceny, not armed robbery, is unlikely to keep Verone behind bars for more than 12 months. He is being held in Gaston County Jail on a $2,000 bond, according to a spokesman for the jail, and is scheduled to appear in court June 28.
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It pretty much sums up our broken healthcare system and shows how little have changed from over a decade ago.
Three hot’s and a cot
Over the past few years, we’ve told you some truly bizarre stories about what people do in search of affordable health care. One woman got married to a man she barely knew to get his job-based health coverage. And one man flew out of the country to get surgery, because he didn’t have insurance and couldn’t afford the out-of-pocket costs that American hospitals were going to charge him. But we think this next story takes the cake.
A 59-year-old North Carolina man held up a bank—demanding only $1—so that he could be arrested and placed in prison where he could finally get the health care he needed.
James Richard Verone is like many without insurance. Verone worked for Coca-Cola for 17 years and after that job ended, he had only temporary employment options and eventually he wound up jobless. He worked several part-time jobs (which often don’t offer health insurance) and watched his savings quickly dwindle to nothing.
https://www.familiesusa.org/resources/a-health-care-heist/
(he had only temporary employment options)
I can understand that feeling....
Gastonia, outside of Charlotte is a dung hole. It’s called the gas house.
How little has changed?
NO. Its become far worse
Before Obamacare we paid $400 monthly premium for a family of 4, with approximately. $3000 deductible.
Now we pay $1200 for two, with deductibles of $8000, each.
the goal is the systematic destruction of the middle class.
“This story is from June 2011, I think before Obamacare.”
Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010. It was during Obamacare.
(the goal is the systematic destruction of the middle class.)
It’s working, too.
Hello New World Order. /shiny side out
Well, that’s one way to obtain “guaranteed issue”.
And remedy homelessness, killing two birds with one stone.
High taxes on the middle class is your first clue.
I’m old enough to remember Murphy in the Morning and Battlestar Gastonia
Well, even longer than that. Ever since the attempt at Hillary Care, 1993...."blue states" have garbage health insurance.
Thank you RATs.
Now we pay $1200 for two, with deductibles of $8000, each.
We have an aging population. A very low birth rate.
So we have more patients needing health care.
And with technological advances the machines keep getting more expensive and procedures more complex because they can do more.
Old people (65+) don't buy insurance. They use MediCare.
The HIV/STD crowd (faggots) demanded to be included in the same risk pool as healthy folks. The RATs gave it to them. (guaranteed issue)
The illegal alien and ghettopotamus crowd demands free ER care and the hospitals have to give it to them. Guess who pays for it.
(hint: it's called "cost shifting" and it should be illegal)
That's about what it should be.
Now we pay $1200 for two, with deductibles of $8000, each.
That's terrible. A quick fix would be a well funded HSA and a cheaper even higher deductible plan (for real expensive claims)
the goal is the systematic destruction of the middle class.
And the total destruction and loss of confidence in the private insurance industry, in order to justify RAT-Care (total socialized medicine.)
We have a limited number of doctors and nurses. A limited number of facilities to treat health patients.
We have 68 million Americans on Medicare today compared to 47 million in 2010.
Even if we had Pat Buchanan as our President and we had decided to close our borders since then and we did not pass Obamacare, we were going to see an increase in health care costs due to an aging population and inflation.
Part of the lie sold to us that technology would make things more affordable.
😂
Old people (65+) don’t buy insurance. They use MediCare.
Funny, I don't seem to see that here in poverty stricken Maine.
I also don't see long waiting periods for treatment, which is why CanadaCare patients are coming down here for procedures. The main bottleneck is where wetbacks and welfare queens are clogging up the ERs for free treatment of their colds and splinters.
We have 68 million Americans on Medicare today compared to 47 million in 2010.
Getting rid of the fraud and abuse will bring that number back down.
...we were going to see an increase in health care costs due to an aging population and inflation.
So what are you going to do about that?
It's part of the problem, but not the bulk of it. Getting rid of the "free healthcare" and corruption in the provider system, from the CDC, the FDA, DHHS, and big Farmah, all the way down to the drug doctors, is where the axe needs to fall.
Go back and look up "cost shifting" that in itself should make your blood boil.
"Healthcare" will now probably be trying to gouge you for the damage they did with the Covid hoax, and all the Vax injuries and deaths.
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