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SAUL GONZALEZ<\/strong>, correspondent: The Mississippi Delta\u2014it\u2019s a place associated with cotton fields, peaceful bayous, and faded communities where blues music was born. However, the Delta is also home to some of the poorest and most medically vulnerable people in the country, like these seasonal cotton pickers who work 12-hour days but get no health insurance. When people in this part of Mississippi get sick or injured, often the only place that will help them is a small, no-frills health care clinic in the Delta town of Tutwiler.<\/p>\n

DR. ANNE BROOKS<\/strong> (speaking with patient): This is probably going to feel cold, so get ready. Big breath, all the way down\u2026<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Its director is Dr. Anne Brooks, a physician and Catholic nun who has spent nearly 30 years healing and helping the Delta\u2019s poor.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: We do what we can with what have. There\u2019s a saying of George Washington Carver that I\u2019ve always loved: \u201cStart where you are with what you have, make something of it, and never be satisfied.\u201d And we are not satisfied.<\/p>\n

\"post01-mississippinun\"GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Dr. Brooks, a Florida transplant, came to the Delta in 1983 when many in the area still lived in sharecroppers\u2019 shacks. When she reopened this then-shuttered clinic, it still retained segregation-era waiting rooms\u2014one for whites, the other for blacks.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong> (speaking with patient): Maybe the circulation to your heart isn\u2019t as good as it ought to be.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: In the decades since, Dr. Brooks has put down deep roots in the Delta\u2014an area, like the rest of Mississippi, with some of the highest levels of heart disease, diabetes, and obesity in the nation.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: I feel like I belong here, and I feel like these are my family, and when you have family folks, you love them and you take care of them, and that keeps me here.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: A feeling of responsibility?<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: No, a feeling of love.<\/p>\n

\"post03-mississippinun\"GONZALEZ<\/strong>: One challenge Dr. Brooks and her small staff face is treating people who have no private or public insurance. With about one-in-five people in the state without coverage, Mississippi has one of the highest levels of uninsured in the country.<\/p>\n

VERONICA PHILLIPS<\/strong> (patient): You can come here when you don\u2019t have insurance, and they\u2019ll see you. They never turn you down.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Veronica Phillips is here today because of a lump in her breast.<\/p>\n

PHILLIPS<\/strong>: My kids they have Medicaid but I wasn\u2019t able to get it because I was working at the time that I applied for it. They said I made too much money and I was only making $600 a month at McDonald\u2019s.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: That\u2019s what you were making?<\/p>\n

PHILLIPS<\/strong>: Yes, and they told me that I made too much money.<\/p>\n

GAIL HERREN<\/strong>: Without them I don\u2019t know what we would do. I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Without this clinic?<\/p>\n

JOHN HERREN<\/strong>: Yeah.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: John and Gail Herren are visiting the clinic to check on John\u2019s skin cancer. They lost their insurance when John lost his job in 2003.<\/p>\n

\"post04-mississippinun\"GAIL HERREN<\/strong>: It scares you. It scares you to death. You don\u2019t know what to do, where to turn. You live and die, you don’t have health care, it\u2019s either you die or you live, and you\u2019ve got to figure out how to go about it. You don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong> (speaking to patient): I don\u2019t think you broke anything. I think what you\u2019ve done is rip up the ligament.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: In order to keep her clinic afloat, Dr. Brooks often gets by on private donations and whatever small amounts of cash patients can afford to pay.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: Seventy percent have no way of paying for their care. Sometimes we can figure out a way they can give us 10 bucks, 20 bucks maybe. But they don\u2019t have income. They are not working because they hurt, or they are sick, or whatever.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: As she heals bodies as a physician, though, Dr. Brooks also says she never forgets her responsibilities as a nun and that she\u2019s also here to provide a measure of spiritual care.<\/p>\n

\"post06-mississippinun\"BROOKS<\/strong>: You know, the patients that I have are very prayerful people. I\u2019m listening to somebody\u2019s lungs. I am listening to the breath of life. So I pray for my brother or my sister while I\u2019m listening to their lungs. They don\u2019t know it. Sometimes they need to know it. Sometimes I’ll tell them, especially if there\u2019s trouble in the family or trouble in their heart. It\u2019s just something that I do personally.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: And what does that do for you?<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: Well, they are my brothers and my sisters, so it does a lot for me.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: However, Dr. Brooks says that despite her prayers and best efforts she often can\u2019t provide the kind of care her patients need.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: If I have tried here, here, here, here and here and I\u2019ve come up zip, then there isn\u2019t anything else I can do, and that\u2019s very disturbing, very disturbing.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: And that happens.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: Sometimes the patient dies. Sometimes the patient\u2019s life is shortened. We do what we can, and when we can\u2019t we keep trying.<\/p>\n

\"post07-mississippinun\"GONZALEZ<\/strong>: You might think that Mississippi, the poorest state with some of the worst health care statistics in the country, would be a champion of national health care reform like that passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama. But you\u2019d be wrong. There are many people here in the Magnolia State who think that particular cure is a lot worse than the disease. Chief among them is Mississippi Republican Governor Haley Barbour. He argues health reform will put a burden on small businesses.<\/p>\n

GOVERNOR HALEY BARBOUR<\/strong> (speaking with reporters):\u00a0For many, many small businesses in America, the tax put on them by the government under the Obamacare bill for not having health insurance will be more money than they’ve ever made.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Governor Barbour also believes health reform violates the Constitution because it will require Americans to obtain health coverage. The governor has joined a lawsuit of Republican attorneys general seeking to declare the law unconstitutional. There are also concerns in Mississippi over the increased numbers of people, like those at Dr. Brooks\u2019s clinic, who will qualify for Medicaid because of health care reform. Medicaid is the government insurance program for low-income individuals, whose cost is shared by both federal and state governments.<\/p>\n

\"post11-mississippinun\"RICHARD ROBERSON<\/strong> (Mississippi Division of Medicaid): We\u2019re anticipating an increase in the neighborhood of, a potential increase in the neighborhood of 400,000 beneficiaries. We\u2019ve got about 625,000 beneficiaries now. But it will be a significant challenge for our state and I suspect for many other states too to fund the expansion of Medicaid.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Richard Roberson is an official with Mississippi\u2019s Medicaid office. Although the federal government will pick up most of the tab for expanding Medicaid, Roberson says the cost to Mississippi\u2019s taxpayers will still be enormous.<\/p>\n

ROBERSON<\/strong>: We\u2019re estimating through 2020 is about $1.6-$1.7 billion coming from the state.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: And can Mississippi handle that?<\/p>\n

ROBERSON<\/strong>: That\u2019s going to be the challenge.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Mississippi\u2019s leaders say they prefer tort reform and cutting waste in Medicaid as a way to bring health care to more people.<\/p>\n

ROY MITCHELL<\/strong> (Mississippi Health Advocacy Program): Mississippi is essentially a benchmark for health care reform.<\/p>\n

\"post09-mississippinun\"GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Critics of Governor Barbour, such as Roy Mitchell of the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program, fear Mississippi\u2019s Republican leadership will try to sabotage the implementation of health care reform through foot-dragging and backpedaling.<\/p>\n

MITCHELL<\/strong>: What we should be doing is working to implement programs that expand coverage rather than being on the defense all the time. I think you could say that health care reform is not successful in this whole nation if it\u2019s not successful in Mississippi.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Why?<\/p>\n

MITCHELL<\/strong>: Well, if you can\u2019t implement health care reform in Mississippi what have you accomplished, when the need is so great in Mississippi?<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: Back in Tutwiler, people like the Herrens say they don\u2019t follow the national debate over health care, but they do insist some kind of change is necessary.<\/p>\n

JOHN HERREN<\/strong>: This is America. You know, we should have some type of medical coverage, some type, regardless of if you work or not.<\/p>\n

GAIL HERREN<\/strong>: Some kind of\u2014not total, but partial, anything to help you. You never know. One day you got a job, you\u2019re doing good, you\u2019re okay. Next day you\u2019re out of a job and you don\u2019t have insurance. You get sick, and there you are.<\/p>\n

\"post10-mississippinun\"GONZALEZ<\/strong>: As for Dr. Brooks, she says that when it comes to the political fight over health care reform, she\u2019s simply too busy tending to the people of the Delta to take part.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: Other people can make words and can make noises. I\u2019ve got other things to do. They don\u2019t include being political. I can\u2019t take care of it. I can ignore it. I can keep on truckin\u2019.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: You do what\u2019s immediately before you, the job that\u2019s to be done here.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: Yeah.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: And that\u2019s enough. That\u2019s enough for a lifetime.<\/p>\n

BROOKS<\/strong>: That\u2019s right. More than a lifetime. More than several lifetimes.<\/p>\n

(speaking to patient): I think you\u2019re doing real good.<\/p>\n

GONZALEZ<\/strong>: The people of the Delta who have become Dr. Brooks\u2019s extended family over the decades are grateful for her dedication.<\/p>\n

For Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, I\u2019m Saul Gonzalez in Tutwiler, Mississippi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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