'A new report released by the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic and Asian Legislative Caucus and the Campaign for New York Health, which is fighting for statewide universal health care for all NY residents, reveals how hard that is for communities of color.'
The report details how Black, Brown, Indigenous and other New Yorkers of color were hit harder by the pandemic due to long-standing inequities in decent health care, housing, food and fulltime jobs, also their lack of employer-paid health insurance resulting in significant medical debt.
In the early years of my practice, we had more leeway to offer extra care or a ‘free’ consultation to families, but with computerization, the need for underfunded public health facilities to increase revenue added to the overreaching power of insurance companies and their inequitable financial practices that has become impossible.
I believe medical care is a human right. A single-payer system that is free at point-of-use will provide medical care to all at a price affordable for all.
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