That’s the question that Peter in Carbondale had to ask himself, within just a few hours of an accident he had chopping wood. The small businessman can’t afford health insurance, and knew that the life-flight needed to reattach his thumb would cost him in the tens of thousands. Watch his story:

Check out some of the other videos I’ve produced lately for the Cover America Tour, a project of Consumer Reports Health. I’ll post the best stories to this blog.