Across the country we see more and more people voting for the very
leaders who are trying to exterminate them. This article is a good example. -SJ
Otto
From The
Washington Post:
Another morning,
another list of patients and problems in the hands of
35-year-old Keisha Saunders. Diabetes, depression, heart disease. Robert needs
lower blood pressure. Buffy needs prescriptions filled. Mary needs to lose 50
pounds, so she can get what she really needs, a new hip.
Again, the list extends to the bottom of Keisha’s
notepad, as it has so many days since the Affordable Care Act mandated that
everyone have health insurance. Unlike in Washington, where health care is a
contentious policy debate, health care where Keisha is a nurse practitioner is
a daily need to be filled. The high rates of chronic diseases in McDowell
County have made it the county with the shortest life expectancy in the nation.
It’s also a place that voted overwhelmingly for
President Trump, whose promise to repeal the ACA will soon affect nearly every
patient Keisha treats at the Tug River health clinic in Northfork, including
the one waiting for her in exam room No. 2.
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