[jacalata]

Social Security generally requires that your fracture hasn't healed for least six months and a doctor's opinion that it is unlikely to heal for a total of at least 12 months.

So I guess it is technically true, and the advice to someone who breaks their leg is to make sure that it is a horrific fracture that won't heal for a year. Sounds like a comprehensive safety net after all, people with the typical recovery time of only three months are just ineffective and don't want to use the safety net.

[Domenic_S]

I don't know what to tell you. If the accident happened at work, you've got worker's comp so you're fine. If it happened outside of work, well, does society need to subsidize your mistakes?

[jacalata]

I don't know what you want to tell me. I thought you were trying to agree with the original poster in this thread, who says that America has a good social safety net. Now you're trying to say of course America has a terrible social safety net, but that's fine because fuck people who make mistakes like slipping on a patch of ice while walking to work and simultaneously being too poor to survive three months without attending their job that involves walking around waiting tables?

edit: deleted double post, got confused by caching