I’ve seen the same thing. There’s a huge swath of Americans who make up an invisible sea of despair. We say that they were afflicted by this disease or that, but what they were really afflicted by was bad public policy: unhealthy food, lack of access to the material basics of anything better, and lack of healthcare. They were ultimately killed by the spiritual disease, not the physical one.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber
3 Aug 2023
I was a pastor for 40 years; when people died because they didn’t have health care, I had to bury them. I could not stand up in that pulpit and say that God called them home and it was a natural death. Refusing to pay people a living wage is policy murder. (1/3)
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I have two co-workers that have diabetes and crohns disease. The diabetic is a delightful vibrant 24 yr old who fights with her insurance non stop and has to ration her insulin. The one with Crohn’s disease has no insurance and cant afford the $6000 bill when it flares up 🤬
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Exactly my point. And there are millions like them. This should not be happening in the richest country in the world, and it happens in no other advanced democracy because those countries all have universal health care. The only reason it happens here is because of the greed of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies, and the only way to override that is for We the People to rise up. #marianne2024

Aug 4, 2023 · 4:56 PM UTC

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Don’t you teach: "Only a shift in the way we see the world will provide a shift in the way we experience it"?As former RN I can tell you that gets difficult when you are monitoring a patient’s blood sugar.