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🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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0:00.0 | Yeah, I think that there's something, you know, this is being brought out by climate change. |
0:05.2 | Precarity is profitable for some people. |
0:08.4 | I mean, people have made a lot of money off of this pandemic. |
0:11.1 | People have made a lot of money off of some of our climate disasters that have happened recently. |
0:16.7 | And some people can afford safety in the middle of these crises, which, you know, makes some other people money. |
0:23.3 | You know, that precarity is because some people don't want to pay taxes to then invest in public systems that would protect us all. |
0:29.8 | And sort of what you're saying, it's like it's thinking about it from the perspective of do we have a right to a public health system? |
0:35.2 | Do we have a right to health care? |
0:36.5 | We should. |
0:37.4 | We just haven't really been budgeting for it. |
0:40.3 | We haven't been building it. |
0:41.5 | Yeah. |
0:41.8 | And just to add, you know, segregated care like still very much exists, you know, at least here in New York City. |
0:48.3 | We have, you know, public hospitals where both Andrew and I work that really are responsible for taking care of many, |
0:56.0 | you know, impoverished or low-income communities. And then we have these larger academic |
1:00.5 | hospitals where people with commercial insurance or private health insurance go. And, you know, |
1:05.3 | with the COVID pandemic, particularly at the peak, we saw, you know, the strain on public hospitals and smaller community |
1:11.7 | hospitals in terms of, in terms of just like having something as basic as like dialysis, |
1:16.9 | you know, available or accessible to patients. And we saw folks, I mean, there's New York Times |
1:22.0 | that a report about this, about, it's estimated, like, I think if folks went to like a public |
1:27.0 | hospital or community hospital, |
1:28.1 | they had three times higher likelihood of dying compared if they went to one of the larger |
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