We’re just 6 days away from the Medicare for All National Summer Strategy Call, and we have an exciting update to share with you: we’ll be joined by Patrisse Cullors, artist, political strategist, co-founder of Black Lives Matter & founder of Reform LA Jails.
Patrisse will be joining as a featured speaker to discuss this historic moment, and why the fight for guaranteed health care for all is part of the larger fight for racial equality.
Historic mass uprisings against police brutality have re-ignited a national conversation on systemic racism that lives in every facet of our society. People of color in the US already faced disproportionate lack of health care, and COVID-19 has only worsened this dynamic.
A new report from The New York Times brings to light the massive racial inequalities in our health system and in broader society.1 Black and Brown people are three times as likely to be infected by — and twice as likely to die from — COVID-19 as their white neighbors.
This isn’t a coincidence, but the inevitable result of systemic racial disparity within our country. Representing the greatest share of essential workers, Black, Native American, and Latinx communities are put at a higher risk of infection, while also overrepresented in the uninsured and underinsured population.
In order to completely unroot and transform this system, we need Medicare for All, the only plan that will guarantee quality health care for everyone free at the point of service regardless of race.
With determination,
Jasmine Ruddy
Organizer
Nurses’ Campaign for Medicare for All
1The New York Times: The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus
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