Capitalist crimes against seniors in nursing homes
Capitalist crimes against seniors in nursing homes By Jim McMahan posted on December 11, 2020 As we are hit by a second wave of the pandemic, the causes of the 266,000 U.S. deaths of COVID-19 must be exposed. It is not because of the virus alone that the U.S. has become the world’s leader in number of deaths. It is the capitalist system and its for-profit health care industry. Health care workers–the majority Black and Latinx women–went on strike at nursing home and other long-term care facilities at 11 Illinois locations on Nov. 23, here at Oak Lawn Rehabilitation Center.