If you had cancer and didn't know it, and someone named Melinda came and gave you a nice bed, some pain-pills and told you she cared, you'd feel a bit better.

If you had cancer and didn't know it, and someone named Melinda came and gave you a nice bed, some pain-pills and told you she cared, you'd feel a bit better. Except you'd still have cancer. When someone got you to a doctor, who operated on you quickly and saved your life, you'd not only consider the person who got you to the doctor insightful, but far more helpful than Melinda, and be rightfully outraged at Melinda's well-meaning but clueless efforts to help you. I am the person getting you to the doctor, Melinda is Melinda Gates, and the insightful bit is figuring out what cancer is, and what a doctor would be, in this metaphor. Melinda and Gates think it's lack of education in the USA. You tell me.