This is what America has come to:

A disabled widow, Melinda Price, 43, set out with her walker at 4 a.m. in hopes of getting health care not covered by her Medicaid insurance. A cancer survivor, she had lost her car to medical debt, and she could not afford an Uber. So Price hobbled for nearly two hours through darkened streets to a high school in Columbus, Ohio, where medics at a health fair promised free help.

Yet American health care may be headed for a future still more bleak:

President Trump’s cuts to Medicaid and other health programs will make things worse, especially for marginalized people like Price. One study projects that 51,000 Americans will die annually as a result of these cuts.

After her long walk, a weary Price waited with scores of other struggling people in the pre-dawn darkness for their numbers to be called to enter the building. Many patients were ahead of Price, having arrived the previous day and slept in their cars, so she rubbed her hands by an open fire someone had built to stave off the cold.