An email that I received this morning from my daughter-in-law, Tami, who lives in Berkeley:
i thought of you this weekend as i was taking a training workshop for a clinic i will be volunteering at. the clinic serves low income women with cancer. it was extremely heart wrenching to see and hear their stories.
women who had to take public transportation to their chemo appts, living in cars while going through cancer and treatments, etc. and the #1 reason for the current poverty situation was lack of health care or not enough of it.
many or most had good or decent jobs prior to their diagnoses but because of deteriorating health they lost their jobs and then lost their insurance, or some just didn’t have it before and the diagnosis and bills, etc. put them into utter poverty. your mission for the need for universal health care slapped me in the face!
Comment: Tami understands.