Letters to the Editor
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Thanks for the example, Hairhead
Thanks for sharing your illuminating experience. Let me say that my experience was that I once had an accident at work where my right index finger was crushed and split open by a piece of machinery from the tip of my finger down into my palm.
It really hurt a lot.
My boss bundled me into a car and we went to one... two... three emergency rooms before we came to one that took his insurance, which I'm sure, knowing him, was the very cheapest he could get.
That was a lot of fun, let me tell you.
The cost of the whole injury, had it been up to me to pay, would have been at least a year's salary. Probably more.
Unfortunately, here is the typical American's self-centered perspective on the story you told. "What? So some guy can't go out for a jog without falling down and breaking an elbow? And so now I HAVE TO PAY MORE TAXES? Where's the personal responsibility? Whine whine whine? Bitch bitch bitch! I haven't been to a doctor in 20 years, and I ignored a weird looking mole on my arm the whole time because I couldn't afford the tests and now I got skin cancer, but you don't hear me complaining. If you don't want to break an elbow, then next time TRY NOT FALLING DOWN FOR A CHANGE! Ever think of that?"
And etc., and so on.
American's are strange creatures, getting stranger.