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Listening to her, I felt this familiar panic rise in me, the residue of my own childhood.
聽著她的描述，我感到熟悉的恐慌在我心中升起，來自我童年的陰影。
When I was 10 years old, my father lay on the living room floor in the grips of one of his many depressions.
當我10歲時，我父親躺在客廳的地板上，被抑郁籠罩著。
As I crouched next to him, he told me that he wanted to kill himself.
當我蹲在他旁邊時，他告訴我他想自殺。
My father lived, but he struggled to work.
我父親活下來了，但他苦于工作。
And my family survived, but we teetered, down one paycheck, relying on my mom's schoolteacher salary.
我的家人幸存下來，但我們搖搖欲墜，靠著一份薪水，依賴我母親學校的工資度日。
Even as a little kid, I knew we lived in the shadow of financial and emotional collapse.
即便是個小孩，我知道我們生活在經濟和情感奔潰的陰影中。
This is really hard to say, because it's taken me 25 years to be honest with myself that this is why I do this work:
這真的難以啟齒，因為我花了25年的時間來對自己坦誠，這就是我做這個工作的原因：
knowing that my father needed health care to recover, but to be healthy,
知道我父親需要醫療保健來恢復，但要保持健康，
my family needed something else, we needed a decent income;
我家人還需要其他東西，我們需要一份體面的收入；
and knowing, as so many do more than I, that panic when the basics threaten to slip away.
還知道，就如很多人更能體會的，那種對基本的東西要溜走時的恐慌。
To the voters in our focus groups, the solutions were straightforward.
對我們焦點小組的選民來說，解決方案很簡單。
As one of those white Republican women in Charlotte said,
就像夏洛特的一位白人共和黨女性說的，
"Instead of putting all this money into health care, put it into affordable housing.
“與其把所有錢都投在醫療保健，不如投一些到可負擔的住房中。
You know, like, take it and distribute it differently."
就像，拿著它，用不同的方式來分配它。”
It turns out that when you have the right language and you ask the right questions,
結果表明當你有了正確的溝通語言，你問了正確的問題，
the answers become remarkably clear and unanimous.
答案變得明顯清楚和一致。
What we know is that, despite all the noise, the plan for health care in this country is that there is no plan.
我們知道的是，盡管有所有這些噪音，這個國家的醫療保健計劃就是沒有一個計劃。
But we have something more powerful than any politician's bill, any candidate's platform, any think tank's policy statement.
但我們有比任何政治家的法案、任何候選人平臺、任何智囊團的政策聲明更強大的東西。
We have our common sense and our common experience.
我們有我們的常識和我們的共同經歷。
