Not exactly. So much for that Republican meme.
Myers, one of some 1.2 million Michigan residents with no health insurance, according to CNN, endured a month of unbearable pain in her right shoulder after she injured it while playing with her dogs in her backyard, according to WSBT TV. The 41-year old woman took pain medication but was not able to see a specialist since she can't pay for health insurance. Last week, feeling desperate, she shot herself in the right shoulder.
"They said it would have to be life-threatening or imminent danger for them to do anything, so I was making it be imminent danger that something had to be done," she told WSBT TV.
So they treated the gunshot wound, but didn't do a thing for the original injury that prompted her to put a bullet through her shoulder.
Plus she might face charges for discharging a weapon within city limits.
Via Balloon Juice.
