Unlike in Washington, where health care is a contentious policy debate, health care where Keisha is a nurse practitioner is a daily need to be filled. I mean it just burnt.”Clyde Graham, 54, is an unemployed Medicaid patient with a host of health issues. Heartburn is just the latest problem for Clyde, a patient Keisha sees every three months. But if he had a job that provided health insurance, he reasoned, he wouldn’t need Medicaid anyway, so he voted for Trump, along with 74 percent of McDowell County. Sometimes, between patients, Keisha retreats into her office, sits at the folding table she uses as a desk and takes a few steadying breaths.

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2017 23:31 UTC