What Would America Do?

Who doesn't love stories of the American dream?
Someone who pulls themselves up by their bootstraps, and makes something greater than that which they were initially given?
Only, I don't hear that so much today.
Here's one I did hear...
A new patient came to see me, someone who has significant health problems. Had worked hard for years, but last year got laid off, and then lost their health insurance.
Was able to find other work, but was denied health insurance due to pre-existing conditions. Finally got some coverage, and medicines had been re-started, only wasn't able to afford some of them.
Most of our visit was spent trying to figure out which medicines we could switch to that the patient might be able to afford. We also got some baseline labs.
I called the patient a few days later to discuss the lab results, only they were in the hospital, having had a relapse that could have been prevented had they been able to take their medications...

It's the weekend, a time when many Americans go to their places of worship, so I'll pose some theological questions:
1. Did God give us love and the task to use that love to help take care of one another? I believe the answer is YES.
2. Did God give us knowledge and the intelligence to create the miracles of modern science and medicine? Again, I believe the answer to be YES.
3. Did God give us the wisdom to fix our health care system, and the guts necessary to make the decisions necessary to do so?

BE HEALTHY