A retailer in Michigan was robbed and then shot in his store last week. He’s in the hospital right now and racking up what I can only imagine are terrifyingly large medical bills because the U.S. Healthcare system is pretty frightening, and like many small business owners he doesn’t have insurance. If you could consider doing as I and many other folks have, and kicking a few bucks his way to help offset some of his costs, that’d be a pretty great thing to do, I think.
And to other retailers or small business-people operating without insurance (or the benefit of living somewhere with good government-sponsored health care), strongly consider your group insurance options through trade organizations. Many comics retailers qualify under booksellers-association guidelines to join those groups and get a decent discounted plan, and there’s always comics retailer organization COMICSPRO, which I believe offers access to a discounted group health insurance plan as well (for U.S. Retailers). Check them out at http://www.comicspro.org/.
– Christopher