II. Why People need to care about the Inequalities of Healthcare?
This is a political cartoon drawn by Signe Wilkinson, who has worked for the Philadelphia Daily News for the past 35 years. As you can see in the cartoon there is man labeled U.S. Health Care talking about the many Covid-19 fatalities in the world with a bed right next to him stating that people who are considered poor, black, and a nursing home resident. In the article, it was reported that over half of the Covid-19 deaths in Philadelphia are from people in nursing homes, and as it’s stated in the article the poorer nursing home’s area, the higher the toll.
After looking over this political cartoon, I was pleased yet distraught to know that it proves my point about the inequalities among the healthcare system. In the cartoon, you see the groups of people who have been the most affected by Covid-19 and not one of them are the 1 percent nor white people. In the same article, as the cartoon, it states that “inequality is an underlying condition and one that should’ve been solved years ago.”
In an another article, written by Rachel Garfield and Tricia Neuman, who are both the Vice Presidents and Directors for a program on Medicaid state that almost 14,000 nursing homes nationwide has been treating people for Covid-19 and have a high share of both Black and Hispanic resident. An analysis showed that, 12% of all nursing home residents are Blacks and 6% of them are Hispanic.
Earlier this year, the Democratic candidates were all discussing their takes on Healthcare. In an article from “Health Line,” written by Stephanie Booth, a Freelance writer from Portland, she stated how in this debate some of the candidates couldn’t agree with their plans with Healthcare. Some of them wanted the “Medicare for All” plan such as Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren because they believe in single payer healthcare. While others like Joe Biden and Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s plans to reform the Affordable Care Act.
Well what did we get? We will see and is it good enough?
