Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: OPINION: Health literacy is key to good outcomes

While attending my daughter's graduation from The George Washington University several years ago, I heard the great Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the NAACP, speak of two men standing on a river's edge. Suddenly, one man spots an infant floating in the middle of the current. Both dive into the breach and rescue the infant. Standing on the bank, they suddenly spot another child, and the process is repeated. Again and again, diving into the swift current, they recover child after child when suddenly one of the men starts running up the bank. "Don't leave!" implores the second man. "I need help to save these children. Where are you going?" The man yells as he races upstream, "I'm going to stop whoever is throwing them in!"