The $1 Health Care Plan

On June 23, 2011, Richard James Verone, a 59-year-old man in North Carolina, found himself unable to pay a $2,000 bond while awaiting a court date for a crime committed two weeks earlier. In a carefully planned act, he entered a bank, presented a note to the teller demanding money, and followed through on his plan. This gripping story explores an unusual sequence of events leading up to a courthouse appearance.