Due 4/10 11:59 pm
Answer the following questions in your original post in 1-3 paragraphs:
Original post: (5 points) Provide a brief 1 paragraph summary of the article. What you are your thoughts on the article? Do you agree or disagree with the premise of the article? How does this article related to this weeks textbook reading?
Comment: (5points) Read several other classmates’ posts.
Respond to one classmate’s post: Hadley Perez Hadley Perez why doesn’t the US have universal healthcare?
Summary:
This article told o the history behind some of the reasons why universal healtchare isnt a thing in the United States. It also talked about the history of race and helathcare. Way back when, the black community was almost going “extinct” due to them not having acessible healthcare or any care at all. There was lack of sanitation and poor nutrion plaguing the country esepcially the minorities. The white people wanted the sick enslaved plantation workers healthy enough to get back to work but they also didn’t wan tthem free and healthy enought to take over. There were a bunch of Acts and bills put into law between 1935-1945 but those acts made it so state leaders could exlude black people. Hospitals then became part of a bigger healthcare plan but then they could segregate them and the services provided sicne states controlled the disbursment of funds. A little more down the line Medicare and Medicaide were formed but still not everyone was garunteed healthcare, ” a basic human right”.
my thoughts:
Okay so I thought that this article was really eye-opening. Learning about the race issues that were happening with US healthcare during the civil war and so on, was really sad to hear. Still to this day not everyone has acess to healthcare but it has come a long way from the black community being denied healthcare or any care at alll back in the day. There are a lot of issues with healthcare still but I think everyone not having equal access is a major problem and one that has beeen prevalent in this system for so long, basically all the way back to when it first started. This article related to this weeks textbook reading by talking about the governments intervention in US healthcare and reform.