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Stuart G

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Tue Aug 27, 2013, 05:07 PM Aug 2013

Sick Oregon Man Robs Bank for One Dollar to Get Health Care in Jail : Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/08/27/2535201/sick-oregon-man-robs-bank-dollar-health-care-jail/

By Scott Keyes on August 27, 2013 at 2:08 pm

Nobody sticks up a bank for a single dollar unless he has a particularly compelling reason. Tim Alsip had one: the only way he could afford health care was to get it in jail.

On Friday morning, 50-year-old Alsip walked into a Portland-area Bank of America and calmly handed the teller a note: “This is a hold up. Give me a dollar.” Alsip then took his single dollar bill and sat quietly in the lobby, waiting for police to arrive. According to The Oregonian, he has a history of mental illness, addiction, and dental problems that seem to have gone untreated. Sacrificing his freedom was the price Alsip felt he had to pay to receive medical care.

Alsip is currently homeless and has no past criminal record in the state. He was arrested without incident and charged with second-degree robbery and bail set at $250,000.
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Sick Oregon Man Robs Bank for One Dollar to Get Health Care in Jail : Think Progress (Original Post) Stuart G Aug 2013 OP
Probably learned to do this from this guy who did this exact same thing earlier in N.C. cascadiance Aug 2013 #1
$250,000 bail seems excessive. Maybe it's a mandated amount for bank robbery? nt ladjf Aug 2013 #2
Isn't all bank robbery federal, which means he'll get real meals and real healthcare? Hestia Aug 2013 #3
BOP healthcare is not that great! gopiscrap Aug 2013 #5
Wow what a sick sad country we live in! gopiscrap Aug 2013 #4
 

cascadiance

(19,537 posts)
1. Probably learned to do this from this guy who did this exact same thing earlier in N.C.
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 05:26 PM
Aug 2013
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/nc-man-allegedly-robs-bank-health-care-jail/story?id=13887040

This will be a good story to help the efforts to push through HCIO (Oregon heatlh care initiative) that a number of us have been working around here in the adjacent county have been working on... Thanks for pointing it out, and how perhaps there might be a pattern that will build (two examples already) of this disturbing even perhaps repeating in other places too.

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
2. $250,000 bail seems excessive. Maybe it's a mandated amount for bank robbery? nt
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 05:54 PM
Aug 2013

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