First In the Room, Back of the Line: America's Profiteering Health System Does It Again
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 tr...
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