Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Deadly Inequality in the Health Care “Safety Net”: Uninsured Ethnic Minorities’ Struggle to Live with Life-Threatening Illnesses

I found the article "Deadly Inequality in the Health Care “Safety Net”: Uninsured Ethnic Minorities’ Struggle to Live with Life-Threatening Illnesses" to be very biased. Although it is unfortunate that some people are sick because of a lack of healthcare, I would disagreed with the author that "racism is structured
into the health care system," if anything the healthcare system is unfair to Caucasians because they recieve the least amount of government provided care and they provide the most funding for it. Medicaid and Medicare are paid for by taxpayers, AND Medicare and Medicaid raise the price of healthcare and insurance for those who actually pay for it.  If people neglect to seek Medicaid care than that is their own problem. Insured individuals are already paying for the uninsured to have health care, it's their own fault if they don't use it.

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