By — Lisa Desjardins Lisa Desjardins Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/winners-health-care-haiku-contest Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The winners of our health care haiku contest are… Nation Jul 28, 2017 5:04 PM EDT It’s not easy to channel the concerns of millions of Americans in 17 syllables. Still, we received an outpouring of poetic expression in response to our callout for health care haiku. Choosing a single winner was too difficult. Thus we are proud to congratulate our two winners: Ronnie Dugger and Dorothy Workman! Here are the winning haiku. They won for their combination of cleverness, poignancy and expression of the general disquiet which we saw in nearly all entries: Can’t pay the M.D., no money for surgery, but I can die free! –Ronnie Dugger The Health Care Debate A final insanity Which no one can win. –Dorothy Workman THANK YOU to everyone who responded. As we have said before, we have the most talented readers and viewers in the business. By — Lisa Desjardins Lisa Desjardins Lisa Desjardins is a correspondent for PBS NewsHour, where she covers news from the U.S. Capitol while also traveling across the country to report on how decisions in Washington affect people where they live and work. @LisaDNews
It’s not easy to channel the concerns of millions of Americans in 17 syllables. Still, we received an outpouring of poetic expression in response to our callout for health care haiku. Choosing a single winner was too difficult. Thus we are proud to congratulate our two winners: Ronnie Dugger and Dorothy Workman! Here are the winning haiku. They won for their combination of cleverness, poignancy and expression of the general disquiet which we saw in nearly all entries: Can’t pay the M.D., no money for surgery, but I can die free! –Ronnie Dugger The Health Care Debate A final insanity Which no one can win. –Dorothy Workman THANK YOU to everyone who responded. As we have said before, we have the most talented readers and viewers in the business.