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Heart Operation? How does he pay?


He can't pay his rent, he sleeps in his car, he wrestles, he collapses, he has a big heart op and he walks out of the hospital with a scar.

Theories?

When all of your wishes are granted....
Many of your dreams...will be destroyed

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Most likely charity paid the bill

Contrary to what some believe, pre-Obama care, Hospitals couldn't just refuse to treat indigent patients.

In this case, they did what had to be done.

Many hospitals receive money from rich individuals and businesses and a portion of it is used for charity cases.

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I don't know if this was mentioned because there were too many replies to read, but I worked for a supermarket chain that is owned by the company that owns the one ram worked at, insurance even for part time workers is pretty good. Not as good as they were before the parent company bought us, but still very affordable. We works for acme which at the time was owned by TruValu, also related to SuperValu which also own shaws, star market, osco, as well as other I can't recall

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Movie economics are never accurate.

Kind of like people just hanging by a thread have awesome huge apartments downtown.

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