Hi everybody. This short segment is what we call for the good of the

order. It's something we used to do at the end of my sorority meetings, if you can believe that, where

someone would share something that they came across in the course of the week, a poem, a song

lyric, a short story, that they found enormously helpful as they went about daily life.

And I wanted to pick up the thread because I am so often wowed by something I see in the world that I want to bring back and hand off to you.

So every Friday we produce a short segment called for the good of the order.

Think of it like an audio greeting card, a thing to share with the people that you love around the country

who you don't get to see or talk to enough. A thing to discuss with the people you do see and talk to

on a more regular basis.

This is Kelly Corrigan Wonders for the good of the order. Hello here is a great story to share for the good of the order about a guy who kind of lived for the good of the order.

So this is in Alabama, it's a small town,

about a thousand people, a lot of farmers.

And that was this guy who just died.

He was 80 years old, his name was Hodey Childress. who just

He was 80 years old. His name was Hodie Childress and this guy had gotten wind that people went down to the

town pharmacy and sometimes couldn't afford the co-pay.

And so they would do what people all over the country do when they can't afford their own health

care costs.

They skip dosages. They go without, without say an epipen they cut their pills in half and see if they can stretch the medication longer

They take all kinds of risks that people who have better insurance or more resources don't have to.

So for years this guy would go down there and give the pharmacist a $100 bill and say just

keep it on the side and if you have people come through who can't cover their co-pay

...