http://orlandoweekly.com/news/the-perils-of-florida-s-refusal-to-expand-medicaid-1.1665144
Charlene Dill didn’t have to die.
On March 21, Dill was
supposed to bring her three children over to the South Orlando home of
her best friend, Kathleen Voss Woolrich. The two had cultivated a close
friendship since 2008; they shared all the resources that they had, from
debit-card PINs to transportation to baby-sitting and house keys. They
helped one another out, forming a safety net where there wasn’t one
already. They “hustled,” as Woolrich describes it, picking up short-term
work, going out to any event they could get free tickets to, living the
high life on the low-down, cleaning houses for friends to afford
tampons and shampoo. They were the working poor, and they existed in the
shadows of the economic recovery that has yet to reach many average
people.
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