IV. Arguing back on the Inequalities of Healthcare.
I am going to ask the same two questions again, what are the inequalities of the U.S. Healthcare System and are there any solution to fix it? It’s been both sides of this research that I am conducting. One side for arguing how bad the inequalities of the healthcare are to this day and the other side to help state the plans that our next President has to help fix healthcare. In my last post, I talked about Joe Biden’s plans for healthcare and for this post, I am going back to my other argument which is to discuss how awful the inequalities are in healthcare.
Jamila Taylor wrote an article called, Racism, Inequality, and Healthcare for African Americans, and she is the Director of Healthcare reform. Taylor is African American woman herself and I believe she is writing the article about the inequalities in her community to spread word to people about how difficult it can be for a low-income African American.
In her article, Taylor stated that African Americans have experienced more illnesses and have lower life expectancy than other racial and ethnic groups. She also mentions how 9.7% of African Americans are uninsured through the Affordable Care Act, which is more than White Americans only being at 5.4%. Taylor also states the average annual cost of household of healthcare premiums is about 20% , which is a major cost to bear, and in 2017, 58% of African Americans that lived in the South were more likely to be uninsured through healthcare.
Dave Chokshi who is a Doctor of Medicine, wrote an article called, Income, Poverty, and Health Inequality, was trying to point out the imperfection of Healthcare and the risks we go through everyday with our health.
In the article by Chokshi, he states that the problems with healthcare is having people with low income and it has advanced throughout history. The U.S. Census Data has shown an increase in income inequality for the past few decades. A study also found that wealthy man have been able to live a lot longer than poor men by about 15 years and the same thing can be said for women but by a 10 year difference. Low income adults and children living in poverty are more likely to have risks on their health with illnesses like: obesity, chronic illnesses, high elevated blood levels. Poor people have to spend, much more on their income than rich people do in order to have a stable life.
Honestly, after reading both of these article I was disgusted. It is basically saying the rich get to live and the poor get to suffer. This is case because of the high amounts of costs we have to pay for a good health. What’s also awful is that the poor is more likely to get serious illnesses and instead of acting in the moment and treating them right away, we have to stop and think, do we have enough money saved for this treatment. I’ll admit it does help to know that there are doctors out who are aware of the situation because I always like to think that they can help in their own way.
