Elizabeth Warren Instagram – My mother was born on Valentine’s Day. We both loved her special connection to the holiday. When I was a girl, I got some heart-shaped pans from the dime store and started baking her a heart-shaped cake every year. I’ve kept up the tradition. When she was in her 80s, she was in the hospital for minor surgery. The night before she was scheduled to go home, she said to my daddy, “Don, there’s that gas pain again.” Then she died. The autopsy showed she had advanced heart disease—never diagnosed, never treated. I learned that heart disease is the #1 killer of women. It was considered a “man’s disease,” but doctors do a much better job screening and treating women for it now than when my mother had her heart attack. Still, too many people are unable to get those screenings or those treatments—or are driven into debt for getting sick—because of our broken health care system. So today, I’m thinking about my mother, and I’m thinking about how we must ensure health care as a basic human right.