James has cancer. I met James as we waited for our respective trains. He had just come from his latest chemotherapy treatment at Cook County Stroger Hospital. He was feeling "OK", but worried that he would not be able to obtain his pain medications until the next day. When I asked if he could manage his pain until then, he looked up at me and said, "It will be difficult, but I don't have any choice, do I?"
This is another story of poverty in the US. Abhorrent. As the wealthiest nation in the world, people like James, should not have to suffer. In fact, no being in any part of the world should have to suffer.
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