The COVID-19 global pandemic has exposed in real time what Black, Indigenous, Latino, and Rural Communities have known for decades: unequal healthcare results in entire demographics more prone to epidemics than others.

 

• Black Women widely report that Hospital Emergency Rooms and Primary Care Physicians routinely ignore complaints of pain. 

• Native American Communities typically receive the worst healthcare of all American Demographics, whereas Latino Men often stave off medical care entirely. 

• Many rural communities have but a single doctor for an entire county as for-profit medical groups have decimated small town hospitals.

• Many BIPOC patients insist that having medical providers that either look like them or have a cultural understanding of them leads to better healthcare outcomes.