This pandemic has taken nearly a million American lives. Millions more lost their health insurance. Healthcare workers have been pushed to the brink—some driven to suicide—by the ceaseless workload. Put simply, our healthcare system failed the COVID test. And yet the moment has not fomented a broad call for massive reform.
When it comes to health, housing, and infrastructure, politicians have been corrupted by wealthy donors. Politicians look away while American burns in worship of wealth. I live in a rural community with a substandard hospital, a rampant drug epidemic caused by hopelessness (no jobs, no future for our youth), neighbors who believe Covid-19 is "fake news" (despite the high death toll here), and senior citizens who live in poverty. EVERY WEEK I hear elders talk about having to choose between food and medicine, and wishing they had safe housing. The hole is so deep, and we just keep digging.
Health care conversation is sort of like the weather. People are only motivated in the midst of a storm; once that passes, it's back to normal. To effect real change we're going to have to be as savvy as the NRA (minus the corruption, of course). Build a national organization. Recruit dues paying members. Message, message, message. Build on small victories. Elect our candidates. Make it clear to policy makers that we aren't ever, ever going to back down.
We need to shift funding from war to healthcare and education.. Canada is doing a better job. We should have updated our US hospitals and insurance protocols by now.. we are sending too many billions of tax payers hard earned money away from healthcare.. so we’re definitely not prepared for the next virus mutation.
I am a nurse and I already knew healthcare was a disaster in the United States. Certainly COVID has pointed that out even more starkly. I don't know why there's not more of an outcry about it. All healthcare workers and certainly patients have been suffering. I am doing my bit to effect change from within.
I’m not sure what it will take but I know we will only achieve it with a mass movement and people need to get out of their comfort zone and do something!
It takes big-picture thinkers to envision "massive" reform. President Obama began it with the so-called Obama care. Now, in this even more contentious era, will anyone dare to try?
When it comes to health, housing, and infrastructure, politicians have been corrupted by wealthy donors. Politicians look away while American burns in worship of wealth. I live in a rural community with a substandard hospital, a rampant drug epidemic caused by hopelessness (no jobs, no future for our youth), neighbors who believe Covid-19 is "fake news" (despite the high death toll here), and senior citizens who live in poverty. EVERY WEEK I hear elders talk about having to choose between food and medicine, and wishing they had safe housing. The hole is so deep, and we just keep digging.
A colleague and I are working on research not just healthcare but economy too
need to address both given political condition of the US
Health care conversation is sort of like the weather. People are only motivated in the midst of a storm; once that passes, it's back to normal. To effect real change we're going to have to be as savvy as the NRA (minus the corruption, of course). Build a national organization. Recruit dues paying members. Message, message, message. Build on small victories. Elect our candidates. Make it clear to policy makers that we aren't ever, ever going to back down.
We need to shift funding from war to healthcare and education.. Canada is doing a better job. We should have updated our US hospitals and insurance protocols by now.. we are sending too many billions of tax payers hard earned money away from healthcare.. so we’re definitely not prepared for the next virus mutation.
And right on cue! https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/medicare-cori-bush/
I am a nurse and I already knew healthcare was a disaster in the United States. Certainly COVID has pointed that out even more starkly. I don't know why there's not more of an outcry about it. All healthcare workers and certainly patients have been suffering. I am doing my bit to effect change from within.
I’m not sure what it will take but I know we will only achieve it with a mass movement and people need to get out of their comfort zone and do something!
It takes big-picture thinkers to envision "massive" reform. President Obama began it with the so-called Obama care. Now, in this even more contentious era, will anyone dare to try?