The government values so little the welfare of its people. Low-income communities, whose majority are people of color, were hit with a plunge in health care resources.  We were all deprived of disease testing, maternal services, nursing homes, and prescriptions. The increasing pressure would fall on healthcare workers, who in time, would burn out, leaving no one to provide help or health care. The responsibility should not fall on the workers but on the government, whose job is to tend to the public’s services. Our government can help our residents thrive in our nation by prioritizing quality healthcare, valuing lives over financial gain, and funding accessible healthcare programs for those who have been struggling for help. 

Nowadays, it shouldn’t be a surprise that health care is a right, not a privilege. Time and time again, the government seems to pick and choose who gets the right amount of help and who doesn’t. Speaking from first-hand experience, my grandmother was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to have her insulin shots covered, but since her Medi-Cal was removed for uninsured reasons, she was denied the funds needed to help her pay for it. Medi-Cal is limited by the coverage of various health care prices and when a bill exceeds the coverage, the individual has to pay the sum from their own pockets. For those reasons, my grandmother became a U.S. citizen to get not only her insurance back but the financial help she deserves. But alas she was treated as nothing but a bag of money. In my eyes, the thicker the individual’s wallet is, the further prioritization of the individual, and that’s just not fair. To deem it morally and ethically right is the opinion of a privileged man.

 If the government wanted to, they could have set aside a larger sum gained from federal tax funds and redistributed the sum in redlined communities.

According to the American Public Health Association (APHA), due to largely preventable causes by 1% to 7%. To fund programs like Blue Cross Blue Shield and L.A Care would help out thousands of families more. With the government’s funding, 

the increase of healthcare workers would subsequently boost the number of prescriptions, medicines, and tests, as well as lower the stress placed upon healthcare workers, but to expect these kinds of actions from the government is to dream that pigs can fly. Therefore, the people of our nation should unite and voice our demands to not only create our expectations into reality but to be valued in a system that was built on racial disparity. To be fair is to be human, so let us not help our wallets, but our faith in the good of our humanity.