Women Rights and Health Care.

Did you know Black women are more likely to be uninsured and face greater financial barriers to get care when they need it and are less likely to get access to prenatal care. Black women experience higher rates of many preventable diseases and chronic health conditions including diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. When, or if, Black women choose to become pregnant, these health conditions influence both maternal and infant health outcomes. [1]

This is Zaya Moreno in this post I will be talking about women rights and health care social justice topics close to my heart.

Women Rights

I am interested in Women rights because as a woman I believe the government, catholic churches, and society should not tell us what we can do with our bodies, careers, and life. It took a long time to get to where we are today. And I am not going back to the time where I was considered a second-class citizen.

It is 2020 President Trumps wants to overturn 1974 Roe vs Wade, which allowed women to get abortions without questions asked. Some abortions are illegal to do in certain states that have passed the Heartbeat Act. This act bans abortion after six weeks if a heartbeat is present. Six weeks is when most women find out they are pregnant. This act forces women to have babies, whether they want them or not. Because they cannot get in abortion in their state.

This story needs to told because I believe the government, catholic churches, and society want us to go back to the time where women were house wives who could not get a job, have their own name, have their own property,  have their own money, get an abortion, or have the right to vote. They want to control us and our bodies because of what thousand-year-old book, a couple of hundred-year-old documents said about women and societal norms women are expected to take on. Without us, humanity dies. People need to know this.

  Health Care

I am interested in Health Care because in the United States of America people with diabetes are rationing their insulin due to the lack of coverage their insurance provides. Clinics and hospital do not accept Medicaid, due to already meeting the quota of how many Medicaid patients they can accept, or they do not allow Medicaid at all. Medicaid does not accept all surgeries or medicine that are needed to keep people alive and healthy. The health care system is worst when you makeover a certain amount of money to disqualified for Medicaid and you still cannot afford to pay medical bills. Also, you have a limited amount of income that you can have to keep your Medicaid. If you go over that limit you lose your health insurance. Most people in America are poor, dying, suffering, and drowning in medical bills due to the corrupted system , which is all about money.

I will tell the story about me (Zaya). When I was young, I had two heart surgeries in 1998 totally about 86,000 dollars and the state of Minnesota paid for both surgeries. My parents did not have to pay a dime due to their lack of income. While my boyfriend’s family struggled to pay off his brother’s chemo treatments due to his parents making over 90,000 dollars a year, which disqualified them for Medicaid. Also my boyfriend had to move out , so he could be qualified for Medicaid and get his life saving medicine. A disadvantage to keep his insurance he can’t make over 1200 dollars a month.

This story needs to be told because nobody knows what it is like to have an income cap to keep their insurance. And to be called poor because of it. America is great at keeping people poor.

[1]“Black Women’s Maternal Health.” Black Women’s Maternal Health: www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/health/reports/black-womens-maternal-health.html.