Absolutely nothing melts our hearts like a health policy valentine. Readers made us swoon this season, composing poetic lines about prescription drug prices, medical financial obligation, medical care scarcities, and more.
Here are a few of our favorites, beginning with the grand reward winner and very first runner-up, whose entries were each became an animation by personnel illustrator Oona Tempest.
First Place
Beloved, this Valentine’s Day,
let’s get our passports
and fly away to someplace,
where the very same drugs cost a portion
of what they carry out in the States.
— Jennifer Reck
Runner-Up
I saw the medical professional for a check,
I had a swelling in my best breast.
2 weeks for the response.
It wasn’t cancer.
Rather of death, I’m in financial obligation.
— Sunshine Moore Anger
Other Newsroom Favorites
I was lost in the unhappiness
and shock of you leaving,
Tore my eyes away
from my Morning Briefing
How might you leave us,
Why would you wander off?
When you are liked so very much by the ACA?
I understood too late,
‘T was not to be,
My medical care no longer liked me
— Zac Aulson
Adult love is lovely
And think what makes it more powerful
A paid adult leave policy
To stick with infant longer
— Andrea Ferguson
The documentation flirts with my love,
A dance of rejections, filled with rejections.
My heart wishes for you, my sweet medication, however insurance coverage demands previous permission.
— Sally Nix
My love for you, beloved, is blinding
Like a scientific trial pre-findings
I fear we will part
And I’ll lose my heart
Since of Medicaid loosening up!
— Kara Gavin