A great profile from Joseph Cote in the Nashua Telegraph. It's one of the most accurate headlines I can remember.
Two large zip-top plastic bags holding 14 bottles of pills sit on John and Carol Haley's kitchen counter. One of them, to the right of the sink, holds pills for the morning. On the left, sit the evening doses. All of them are for John Haley.
Like millions of Americans, the Haleys struggle to pay for health care. It should be a little easier for the Haleys since the Veterans Administration pays 100 percent of John's care. But that happens only so long as Carol Haley makes so little money she cannot afford her own.
Carol Haley learned this year she cannot work to pay for her own cholesterol and blood pressure medications without endangering her husband's coverage through the VA. But she learned the hard way. (more)
This article may not change anyone's mind in the health care debate, but it should remind us all that improving health care options will take more than government spending and control.
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