Health Inequities Based On Income

Recorded:
Nov 2024
Speaker
Dr. Jonas Swartz
Duration
00:01:02
AUDIO CLIP
TRANSCRIPT

Dr. Jonas Swartz: I spoke with one of my colleagues last week who is a high-risk pregnancy doctor in Texas, very supportive of abortion care, and she works at two different hospitals. One of them is more a public hospital, which cares for people who are low income, and then one of them is a private hospital that cares for people who are high income, and she said she sees people with the same condition, a condition where the head doesn’t develop, essentially, so no hope of normal life, and that the people in the private hospital go out of state for abortion. The people in the public hospital have no hope of doing that, so they just carry the pregnancy, and then have their baby die. They have to go to the grocery store and have people rub their belly because they’re pregnant and, “How wonderful!” and then they eventually give birth and have the baby die. So, there are tremendous injustices and inequities, and it’s hard to cope with, hard to wrap your mind around.

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