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it's the whole scene, he used to work there, he got medical problems, he holds them up cause they still owe him money, I mean you've got the recession, corperate callousness and Health Insurance in one short story. Like I said, it's almost too on the nose.
Then again I don't know this person and these are all secondhand reports, so I could be totally wrong.