Health Care

I think that the Tuskegee trials that were mentioned briefly in class shows how people of minorities often are not treated with respect medically. The Tuskegee trial was a syphilis trial done in the south on black men. These men were left with syphilis even when a cure (penicillin) was discovered. Instead of being treated and cured, subjects were left to unnecessarily live out the course of the disease. The experimenters used these men just because they wanted to know what happened to a person when the disease takes over someone's brain. These men could have been cured and able to go back to living normal lives, but instead they were not seen as equal people to the white men running the trial. These men were treated more like animal subjects.
I think something needs to be done to make healthcare treatment equal for people of all races and ethnicities. It is not fair that even if two people with insurance go into a hospital, the one that is not a minority might be more likely to be given better treatment. The United States is not rated very well when it comes to health care and I hope with a new health care policy of the president elect can enact some positive changes.