BILL MOYER'S JOURNAL
August 21, 2009

Good people with no health insurance
is it two --no, three, no more
doomed to die
From a dreadful disease called dollar-less.

One man survives and grows,
Treated by generous compassionate
Goodness of orthopedic surgeons,
right people, right time.

Now with a pre-existing history,
No health insurance accessible for hew health problem.
What if a public option
was a realistic choice at the Dollar Store?

Test could be done
Treatments could happen
He, too young, would not face
Death's probability before year's end.

Dollars, lots of them,
you live.
Dollars few of them,
you die.

Equality's story
in the richest country in the world
in the history of human kind
Honors health care rationing.

This dishonest country
Ruled by greed, not compassion
Driven by anger, shouting, screaming, rage,
Overflowing with distrust, disgust, deceit.

Who will fight this civil war
to save the land of the free,
the home of brave, honest
souls needing health care to relish life?

No money, no health insurance
they die, one by one,
each year from the dreadful dollar-less disease.
Eighteen thousand U.S.citizens, at least, each year.

Copyright Mary Elizabeth McIlvane 2009