GUEST COMMENTARY With Pfizer s welcome COVID-19 vaccine here, so are America s unwelcome rich and privileged, clamoring for their entitled spot at the head of the line.
In a harbinger of let-them-eat-cake things to come within a grossly inequitable health system, frontline residents at Stanford Medical Center just held a rowdy protest after the hospital distributed almost all its 5,000 first-round vaccines to executives and other suits who ve stayed safely home for months.
The move by Stanford reflects the longtime reality of a profit-driven system that asks the sick how they ll pay for treatment before asking where it hurts; from one critic, America doesn t have a health CARE system, it has a health INSURANCE system.