High prescription drug prices in the United States have driven up overall health care costs and have led many patients to forgo their medications. Researchers modeled the effects of capping prices for the United States prescription drugs. Researchers have found that this change would have cut the United States’ spending on insulin. Helping workers and …
We need to wonder if we would even know about George Floyd without phone videos. The incidents should make us all wonder how many more like George Floyd there are that did not get the opportunity to become martyred hashtags. Most Black people will tell you that many more unnamed martyrs than named ones. Thus, …
If ever there was a time to advance racial justice, it is now. With demonstrations continuing around the country to mourn the brutal killing of George Floyd, it will be politically and morally imperative to have a well-defined strategy to respond to this moment. The collective national grief is about how Black potential has been …
Racism tends to be enabled to unwittingly perpetuate inequitable outcomes across different domains, including education, workplace, housing, healthcare, and criminal justice for racial minorities. However, democracy is based on egalitarian principles and equal representation. Racism and discrimination limit the ability of racial minorities to actively participate in social life events which were one of the …
It is true that when people of color are disproportionately arrested by police and incarcerated, this also causes disadvantages in other areas of life like family life, healthcare, academia, employment, and social life. Thus, there should be some targets to bring change and betterment. Mentioned can be some of the targeted places to bring improvement. …
Racism today is not limited to explicit racial policies. Some discriminatory policies and practices, such as slavery, Jim Crow laws, and Apartheid, have been abolished; however, their pioneering systems remain. Besides, in the context of institutional barriers that mainly precludes equitable access, they are likely to perpetuate existing disparities in health outcomes. Racism at the …
It is true that discrimination of ethnic or racial origin violates the principle of equality and is morally wrong. The focus of equality requires that all people are equal and thus should be treated equally regardless of anything. If racial discrimination does not exist, it certainly has a historical foundation for its existence. African Americans …
