Man seeking health care robs bank for $1

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Jun 24th 2011, 6:18 am

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Giantaxe

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Re: Man seeking health care robs bank for $1

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Originally Posted by HumphreyC

Ok - not that I approve of the current system, but isn't this guy eligible for medicaid? Also, according to an article I just read there is a hospital in Gastonia that offers discounts of up to 100% for low income patients and there is a free clinic 5 miles from the bank. Could also have gone to the University of North Carolina. There is a non profit called HealthNet Gaston that could have helped him with all this.

Only a handful of states provide Medicaid coverage for childless adults and North Carolina isn't one of them. It's kind of a myth that Medicaid covers the poor in general.