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Healthcare in US: healthcare in the US is expensive and unaffordable to…

- - - - ex: vial of insulin cost $300 --> 1 mil suffer from Type 1 Diabetes, and 1/4 said they had rationed
      - 2019: price increase affected 3,400+ drugs
      - 2016: 36 mil didn't fill prescription because of cost
  - - - alternative ex: Netherlands have standardized basic benefits so patients face predictable copayments
  - - - FAIR Health: median is $45,683 for people ages 51-60; $34,662 for 23-30
      - Without insurance: over $73,000; Medicare: $10,000; Medicaid: $7,000
      - story: Talla had to pay $150,000 in debt for medicare care despite having private insurance → had to sell her house
  - - - Compared to white people, Black people 3.57 times more likely to die from COVID-19 and Latinx people were 2x more likely to die
      - POC: Lower life expectancy
      - high blood pressure (42.4% of black males vs 30.2% of white males in 2013-2014)
      - Lower rates of influenza/flu vaccination
      - Strain on mental health for asian and latinx groups (stress, anxiety, depression)
      - 2014: 20% of balck adults didn't have access to health insurance vs 10% in white/asian adults, 35% for latinx
      - 2012: Black zip code were 67% more likely to have shortage of primary care physicians
        
        effect of redlining (more education for white people → more medical degrees → more hospitals and better doctors in white neighborhoods)
      - White medical students wrongly believe black people have higher pain tolerance (73% of study participants)
      - Infant mortality among black people: 2019: 3-4 times more likely to die than white people
      - Black people ages 51-55 were 28% more likely to have chronic illness than white counterpart
      - Bay Area
        
        Black residents die at twice the rate
        
        Alameda: Latinx make up 43% of covid-19 cases but 22% of pop
        
        Disinvestment in black communities→ high levels of violence and poverty
        
        African Americans live 7 years fewer
- - - - involves raises taxes (mostly on the wealthy)
      - Study by Yale, University of Florida, and University of Maryland found that it would actually save $450 billion each year
- - - - private insurance for drugs ($21 for insulin vs $450 in US)