Unable to afford surgery at the hospital, Marge and Homer see a commercial for Dr. Nick Riviera, an incompetent surgeon who will perform any operation for $129.95.
They want to earn enough money to be able to afford breast operations.
Should We Fight Anywhere And Can We Afford It?" The discussion, held at the annual conservative confab, was meant to ask whether the U.S. can afford military operations like the war in the Middle East.
The World Craniofacial Foundation, which is sponsoring the twins, said it too could not afford the operation.
Mr. Calabrese noted, for example, that a joint venture that included France Telecom returned a $10.4 billion license to the German government last year because it could not afford the operation.
In the US, while the Christian right campaigns feverishly against late-term abortions, there are women leaving it to 18 or 20 weeks because they literally cannot afford the operation or even the transport to get to it.
At that time, I knew people who had middle-class jobs in the industry – studio musicians and what not – and after the decline of the music business we found that we were having to have constant fundraisers to help somebody afford some operation or deal with some other adverse circumstance.
A man forced to decide which of two severed fingers to save as he can only afford an operation on one; a hospital dropping an injured woman 'on the side of a road like garbage' because she has no money; health companies lying to deny the supposedly lucky, insured middle classes life-saving treatment.
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch up my X rays.
Homer is saddened to tell his children, Bart and Lisa, that the family cannot afford the operation.
