How those "Left Out" Survived?
Kudo's, again, to Melissa Harris-Perry for exposing a hidden "known" in our not-so-distant past. Health care for racial minorities was denied, based on skin color, in many states of the United States before 1965. When I left Missouri in 1959, the health care I had came from our "Negro" doctor, at birth. No white provider or hospital would serve persons of color. My first dental care was accomplished in San Francisco, in 1960 (repaired 27 cavities).
On her show this morning, Melissa shows the statistics of the wildly out-of-proportion deaths of minorities due to the lack of, or dangerously mis-applied "health-care". The problems within the health community, from doctors, from hospitals, from insurance companies providing health policies; are huge. Add to those, the societal habits and unhealthy environmental factors, and there is a wonder any of us survive.
My mother and father were married in 1930. They produced 9 children. My mother, and the 9th child, a boy, lived for only moments in 1945, following a horrendous "problem" delivery. That event was attended only by "nurses". No medically-trained personnel would, or could attend.
There may be something endemic in the medical profession that supports this type of behavior. That profession was unique in its support for Nazi practices during their rule in Germany.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_groups_in_Germany_society_were_the_biggest_supports_of_the_Nazis
Today, you find vestiges of these old "practices" mostly in the former slave states (Missouri was a former slave state). There, you find immigrant doctors from places like India or Mexico, who are discriminated against by their white medical "colleagues" in the United States.
I lost 2 brothers, one in Missouri and one in Louisiana within the past 5 months. Their medical "care" was out of the ordinary in its poor quality. The fact that we have "3rd-party-payer", or un-questioned, government-paid, care for minority patients, allows doctors and other health providers to deliver shoddy, or worse, services -- and get paid for it! No questions asked! There were seven "doctors" participating in the Missouri death. Its not clear who would have "standing" to question such practices.
Of the 9 births my mother had, 3 of us remain; one in her 80's, and 2 in our 70's. The others died at ages of 43, 38, 62, 71, and 74. We survived mostly on home remedies learned from our father.
I was fortunate enough to work in and around the medical profession while in California. You should have heard those doctors I worked with "bitch" about Socialized Medicine in 1960! I can hold my own with the profession!
Stay Vigilant! Stay Healthy!
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