"There’s no reason for [healthcare companies]…to invest in health because that’s what they’re making their money from"
Jennifer Koonings, a nurse who was fired due to her solidarity with the Palestinian cause, discusses how America’s for-profit healthcare system exploits US citizens and traumatizes medical staffers.
This desensitization to death and disease within the United States translates in many ways to a complicity in US-supported attacks on healthcare infrastructures abroad.
She notes how the United States’ capitalist priorities often lead to unnecessary suffering, loss, and inequity. Despite healthcare accounting for 18% of the US GDP, many people still struggle to access care. Koonings highlights the urgent need for a system that truly puts people first.
Her words echo globally, as the US continues to enable Israel in its war on hospitals in Gaza, including Kamal Adwan Hospital, where healthcare workers were killed and abducted, patients were dismissed without care, and critical facilities were destroyed.
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