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Re: NYTimes.com: We Knew the Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed
- To: heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>, tricia <http://www.gmail.com/~triciaseibold>, Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>, Vera <http://www..edu/~vshapir>, Vivian Brates <http://www.stanford.edu/~vbrates>, Laura Reeck <http://www.allegheny.edu/~lreeck>
- Subject: Re: NYTimes.com: We Knew the Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed
- From: Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Sat, 09 May 2020 12:44:29 -0700
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The health care system is just part of the problem. There are lots of
vulnerable populations in this country.
Why does the United States have the largest prisoner population in the
world, with no care about what happens to them? Why do hundreds of
thousands of people not have homes, ready to spread disease widely? Why
don't employees have guaranteed sick leave? Why are "essential" workers
paid so poorly that they're forced to go to their multiple jobs ill?
In our wonderful neo-liberal nation, this catastrophe was inevitable, with
or without the Trump administration in power, with or without the
Affordable Care Act.
> From: heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>
> Date: Wed, 6 May 2020 13:10:52 -0700
>
> Watching her speak today so wanted to share this article. Her book An American
> Sickness is highly recommended and highly relevant right now.
>
> From The New York Times:
>
> We Knew the Coronavirus Was Coming, Yet We Failed
>
> The vulnerabilities that Covid-19 has revealed were a predictable outgrowth of
> our market-based health care system.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/06/opinion/coronavirus-health-care-market.html?smid=em-share