Cost of broken system!

A 91-year-old woman stood handcuffed in a courtroom, wearing a hospital gown, not because she was a threat, but because she was a desperate wife trying to keep her husband alive. When their insurance unexpectedly lapsed, the essential $50 medication her 88-year-old husband depended on skyrocketed to nearly $950 per prescription. For days, she watched her husband struggle to breathe, knowing she couldn't afford the life-saving pills. Driven by desperation, she returned to the pharmacy, quietly slipping the medicine into her purse. She was stopped before reaching the exit, arrested for felony theft, and subsequently rushed to the hospital herself after her blood pressure crashed during booking. The next morning, still in her thin gown, she faced a judge who was profoundly moved by the sight. After she whispered, "I didn’t know what else to do," he ordered the chains removed, instantly dismissed the charges, and declared that this was not a crime. It was, he noted, simply the cost of a broken system and two elderly people struggling to survive within it.