Walt’s medical bills alone would bankrupt him for the rest of his natural life, even if he had good insurance. This is all based on real shit by the way, as we all know. No free medicare in the US.

I get the feeling this wasn’t the mentality they were going for when they wrote this damn thing, but inflation and rent and all. Just makes you think, y’know?

  • @lil_tank
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    191 year ago

    Also the demise of Walter is asserted to be due to its ego and not some generic “crime will get you killed!!” legalist shit that it could very well have been. In a sense, Breaking Bad is advising you to keep a low profile if you do shady buisness, not really to avoid doing shady buisness

  • @Shaggy0291
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    151 year ago

    They give Walt an out with his former friends offering to bankroll his treatment, in order to make this decision to go into crime financially unnecessary and therefore a moral issue that can be deployed for dramatic purposes later in the story. The fact they had to use two rich philanthropic characters as a plot device to create this situation within the setting says a lot.

  • @nemesis
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    131 year ago

    I think that’s the intended surface reading of the show and the relatable hook to get people watching. But it’s established pretty early on that getting access to treatment is not Walt’s primary motive, and we repeatedly see the misery and consequences that Walt & Jesse bring on themselves and others through their drug-related activities so I’m gonna say that’s probably not the intended message, no

  • Catradora-Stalinism☭
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    121 year ago

    The whole thing could have been solved if they had free medicare

    but I guess free market systems of insanity preying off our desperation leads to the occasional good tv show

  • @Kirbywithwhip1987
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    91 year ago

    Cuban version of Breaking Bad: Waltuh gets free healthcare and has surgery, the end.