Health care cut when he finally needed it
by Dean Powers—New Mexico
I met a guy who worked ten years for a company, a brake supply and repair chain. For ten years he had health coverage.
When he developed cancer and needed his health care more than ever, but couldn't work the 60 hour work-weeks that his company demanded of him, they let him go...him and all of his benefits; a simple write-off...
Notes from the Southwest
by Dean Powers—New Mexico
At a distance, a city is only a high orange glow in the darkness. The glow emanates out of the vagrant depths of persistent nights. It appears to circumferential travelers on dark stretches of radial highways that convene at its source. The highways stretch outward through uninhabited farmland or forest or, as is the case in New Mexico, high desert...
