Blinded by cash: The financial crisis of refugee health care

“I only have 10 percent of my eyesight remaining, but that’s not the problem. I am looking for mercy.”

My eyes drifted back and forth between Abu-Adnan’s face squinting into the distance, and the shuffling prayer beads swaddled in his right hand. I fizzled with frustration as my cochlea’s raced to transcribe his traumatic story into an appropriate emotional response.

This 65-year-old Syrian refugee from the Golan Heights pleaded me for a …

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