Summary

In Chapter Seven: Every Body, Kamala, and Maya learned their mother had been diagnosed with colon cancer in 2008. Kamala says that everyone will go through some kind of illness that requires the health care system. She gives statistics on how U.S. health care is worse than that of other first-world countries. The U.S. has some of the most advanced technology but exclude many people from health care. Private insurance is employer-based and premiums have been going up faster than wages. Kamala writes that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) made steps to provide universal health care, but Republicans did what they could to tear it apart. Many states have blocked attempts to expand Medicaid, and Republican lawmakers have restricted health care officials from helping people enroll. In 2017, the administration slowed ACA, forcing many to give up their health care.

Kamala remembers...