Nothing sweeps us off our toes like a well being coverage valentine. Readers confirmed their love this season, writing poetic traces about shock medical payments, fowl flu, the price of well being care, and extra.
Listed here are a few of our favorites, beginning with the grand prize winner, whose entry was become a cartoon by workers illustrator Oona Zenda.
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Runner-Up
What to make for my valentine?Perhaps a cake on which we will dine!However uncooked milk and flu-ish eggs gained’t do.Maybe some fluoridated water in lieu?
– Holly Ainsworth
Different Newsroom Favorites
Measles are pink.Chickenpox is simply too.Let’s stick to vaccinesAnd combat covid and flu.
– Arielle Levin Becker
The donut gap is closed, my expensive;Our Half D prices are capped.Let’s hope our love survives alongsideThe Inflation Discount Act.
– Brandy Bauer
My love for you is like well being care as a proportion of GDP. It grows bigger yearly.
– David Schleifer
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