The Democrats and their leftist allies are already mobilizing their outrage over President Trump's proposed 12.5% cut to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) budget. As expected, they will lament the "cruel cuts" to "essential programs," create emotional narratives about seniors and the poor being abandoned, and accuse anyone advocating for budgetary accountability of attempting to dismantle healthcare altogether. Let's skip the dramatics.
Frank! Preach! You know my thoughts on this. This is the most passionately written defense for broad reformation of the US Healthcare system I've EVER read ~ and it speaks to the core problem with the urgent conviction of one who's "been there." I find your article not merely analytical and informative. I find it incredibly moving ~ a personal paean to the pervasive and EVIL bureaucratic waste that wastes not just resources but actual cherished human LIVES! This is your call, your crusade ~ and I'd be honored to wage it alongside you, in memory of my own loved one who died of a gruesome, extremely rare, one-in-a-million neurodegenerative disease no one I meet on the daily has ever heard of. How, then, can we ever hope to cure or even TREAT it? For you, the murderous beast is ALS. For me, it's CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease). For all of us, it's SINFUL bloat! For the love of God, for the love of Todd, let's lock arms and DO something about this disgraceful farce. Together, I'd wager we could even bend TRUMP's ear!
Frank! Preach! You know my thoughts on this. This is the most passionately written defense for broad reformation of the US Healthcare system I've EVER read ~ and it speaks to the core problem with the urgent conviction of one who's "been there." I find your article not merely analytical and informative. I find it incredibly moving ~ a personal paean to the pervasive and EVIL bureaucratic waste that wastes not just resources but actual cherished human LIVES! This is your call, your crusade ~ and I'd be honored to wage it alongside you, in memory of my own loved one who died of a gruesome, extremely rare, one-in-a-million neurodegenerative disease no one I meet on the daily has ever heard of. How, then, can we ever hope to cure or even TREAT it? For you, the murderous beast is ALS. For me, it's CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease). For all of us, it's SINFUL bloat! For the love of God, for the love of Todd, let's lock arms and DO something about this disgraceful farce. Together, I'd wager we could even bend TRUMP's ear!
Bravo, brava!! 👏
~ Karen Hathaway Pittman 💜