Many people may think they are making a healthy choice but in fact they are broke by Wednesday

Play again?

Physically, emotionally, and financially BROKE, I say!

Physically, emotionally and spiritually bankrupt! :drunk:

Tha's OK. They's a special (spatial?) spot in Heaven for me, and my milk, I mean ilk.

Hang on - I paid my car insurance (mandatory in this country) and still got stiffed for a $250 repair bill?
Is there any incentive for an American to pay for car insurance?
If not, don't a hell of a lot of people get shafted?

And yes, it was all pretty scary.
I had to make different decisions than I had to when I was really on my uppers, but at least I could get free health care.

There are a number of ways in which you are better off here if you are on the breadline. For example I will have to pay for my next prescription and my next dental checkup, but have been able to deal with all of this without worry for a couple of years. Let's hope all goes well at the dentist in March as that can get bloody expensive - if anything was going to happen I do wish it had happened back then! But TBO I'm still with an NHS dentist, not with a private one. And they almost always provide payment plans. And my teeth have so far proved invincible.

I do cringe slightly that this (in the game) is a charity connected to a church. Personally I relied on one when I no longer believed and it's hard on conscience and morality. But it was a specific debt-help charity, and their experience and motivation genuinely turned lives around. Even now if I won money I would make them a sizeable donation. They are the most Christlike Christians I ever came across, and I believe they saved my atheist life.

A certain level of liability insurance is mandatory here as well. (That is, coverage if you hit someone else.) Additional damage/accident insurance is optional but recommended, and most people carry it to some degree. However, coverage for general aging repairs (like the broken heater, the new timing belt, the new spark plugs) are almost never covered.

No, they're not covered here either. But I was in a car crash.
Silly game.

did you lose your hair?

Oh well in that case, it's probably accounting for your deductible, which is regularly anywhere from $250 to $500. Still a silly game though, I won't argue with that.

I live this shit everyday.:blunt:

The working poor simulator.

*snort*

Is that what happened to Britney?

Haggis.
I guessed I was missing a reference there :)