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Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Theresa BrownGold spent Wednesday lugging around a giant oil portrait of a college athlete who fell into a diabetic coma because she couldn't afford her insulin.
The Bucks County artist figured the harrowing image of Courtney Leigh Huber, the paint streaking from her face as though she were being erased, would start a conversation about the way this country takes care of the sick.
It didn't.
The 58-year-old painter went on talking anyway - at the SEPTA station in Levittown during rush hour, in the heart of Doylestown at lunch, in Quakertown for the afternoon drive, bringing her one-woman "Truth Tour" to street level in the hope that the faces she's painted over the last four years will reach people put off by politicians, lobbyists, and those looking to make a buck off people's health.
http://www.philly.com/philly/health...tion_to_troubled_U_S__health-care_system.html
The Bucks County artist figured the harrowing image of Courtney Leigh Huber, the paint streaking from her face as though she were being erased, would start a conversation about the way this country takes care of the sick.
It didn't.
The 58-year-old painter went on talking anyway - at the SEPTA station in Levittown during rush hour, in the heart of Doylestown at lunch, in Quakertown for the afternoon drive, bringing her one-woman "Truth Tour" to street level in the hope that the faces she's painted over the last four years will reach people put off by politicians, lobbyists, and those looking to make a buck off people's health.
http://www.philly.com/philly/health...tion_to_troubled_U_S__health-care_system.html