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US man stages $1 bank robbery to get state healthcare (2011)
(www.theguardian.com)
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They do, but it has to be pretty serious because you are signing up to be tortured for an unspecified length of time as well.
Private healthcare and the punitive, draconian nature of our "legal system" work in tandem. If either were fixed then the other would lose their leverage.