Edith Stowe waits for her bus at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia in July 2016. Photo by Zhai Yun Tan for Kaiser Health News.
Edith Stowe, a resident of Washington, D.C., waits for her bus at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia in July 2016. Stowe lives about 5 miles away from the hospital and relies on the city buses to get to her appointments at least twice every three months. (Zhai Yun Tan/KHN)