Bill Harrison:
Those industrial accident statistics you quoted last night, are they on the level?
Henry Thayer:
Absolutely.
Bill Harrison:
Oh, thank you, Ma.
Henry Thayer:
Why you take hospitalization alone...
Ma:
You let Bill eat his breakfast, Henry.
Bill Harrison:
That's alright, Ma.
Henry Thayer:
Just to show you the injustice: you take a millionaire's appendix. It goes wrong; what happens? They take him to the hospital, cut it out, charge him five, ten, fifteen thousand dollars for the job and he never even feels it.
Bill Harrison:
Never feels it?
Henry Thayer:
Paying the bill, I mean.
Bill Harrison:
Oh.
Henry Thayer:
Now then, you take your poor labourer's appendix that starts acting up. He goes to a clinic. The same surgeon operates on him but doesn't charge him a dime. So he doesn't feel it either, does he?
Bill Harrison:
uh-uh.
Henry Thayer:
But, get between them. Look at the other 80% of the population, me for instance, the great middle class. Let's assume that my appendix goes haywire; sooner or later, I've got to come across with five hundred smackers. And before I've paid it, I've gone without clothes and starved myself to death for a year. Is that fair?
Bill Harrison:
No.

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Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)

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