For the Esteem of Health Care and Health Protection

Nothing melts our hearts admire a health protection valentine. Readers made us swoon this season, writing poetic traces about prescription drug pricing, medical debt, essential care shortages, and extra.

Listed below are a pair of of our favorites, starting up with the broad prize winner and first runner-up, whose entries had been every became into a caricature by workers illustrator Oona Tempest.

Health News tamfitronics 1st Pickle

Darling, this Valentine’s Day,
let’s take hang of our passports
and fly away to someplace,
where the same pills price a allotment
of what they attain in the States.

— Jennifer Reck

Health News tamfitronics Runner-Up

I saw the doctor for a compare,
I had a lump in my appropriate breast.
Two weeks for the answer.
It wasn’t most cancers.
So in its put of loss of life, I’m in debt.

— Sunshine Moore Anger

Other Newsroom Favorites

– Zac Aulson

Parental esteem is agreeable
And wager what makes it stronger
A paid parental dash away protection
To follow exiguous one longer

– Andrea Ferguson

The types flirts with my affections,
A dance of denials, chunky of rejections.
My heart yearns for you, my candy remedy, nonetheless insurance protection insists on prior authorization.

– Sally Nix

My esteem for you, darling, is blinding
Esteem a clinical trial pre-findings
But I alarm we can piece
And I’ll lose my heart
Thanks to Medicaid unwinding!

– Kara Gavin