It’s tough for people who don’t have any income these days. It makes people desperate, especially when they need medical attention.
Here’s one such story from the UK Guardian website:
>>US man stages $1 robbery to get state healthcare
Unemployed and without health insurance, man in North Carolina has himself arrested in order to receive treatment
It was not perhaps the most obvious way of getting a bad back, arthritis and a dodgy foot seen to. But if you’re unemployed in North Carolina with no health insurance, there is no obvious way.