Best Of: Our Health Care System Isn’t Built for You to Get Old

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  This is The Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.

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  You've heard the news.

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  Here's what to make of it.

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  I'm Vishakha Darbha and I'm an audio producer on this show.

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  And today I'm in conversation with New York Times opinion writer Michelle Cottle.

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  So Michelle usually covers politics,

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  but in the last few years, she's also written several pieces related to aging in America.

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  Most recently, she wrote a personal piece about caregiving for her father

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  in the final months of his life and the troubling state of the U.S.

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  Caregiving system.

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  More than 2,000 people responded to her essay to share their own stories.

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  I took care of my husband for 15 months at home after he had spent 179 days in the hospital.

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  And I took care of my father who had congestive heart failure, stage 3 kidney disease,

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  and later was diagnosed with brain cancer.

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  My mom, currently 99, arrived legally blind, hard of hearing, and with congestive heart failure.

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  Now, Michelle and I have something in common.

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