Thank you, Elizabeth, for sharing your story—one more horrific instance of a cruel and dysfunctional health “care” system. I wish I could even imagine a solution—such as a single-payer system, a “Medicare for all,” such as Canada, Western Europe, Japan, and most other civilized nations now have—gaining political traction in the US, but with a newly re-elected fascist demagogue entirely in the pocket of the corporate oligarchy, I see little hope. We are all on our own now; all we can do is vow to take care of each other, of our communities, and of our dying planet while our once proud democracy spirals downward into the darkness of ignorance, greed, hatred, denial, and despair.