Sociology

The death penalty is being employed to a number of individuals daily  and its no surprise with the current system that were being subjected to.

Weve all agreed the death penalty is a punishment too severe that are reserved for only the most rotten of criminals, if not something to be used by anyone at all. However, for people who do not receive adequate medical attention that the country should offer, each episode of experiencing illness is another chance to be screened under the eye of death.

Its bad enough that our healthcare system, to those who do avail it, is in shambles, but its even worse that there are those who do not even have access to it. Of course this has been trumpeted for quite a while, but perhaps the clamor of our Hispanic (and many other minorities, including the black population) neighbors are not enough.

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, Hispanics are three times as likely as whites to lack a regular healthcare provider. Moreover, even as citizens who have health insurance, 45 of them do not have access to the healthcare whites do. Considering that health insurance is available to them, one of the obvious reasons for their lack of health security is the accessibility of healthcare centers. And basically, lack of healthcare means dying a slow death for whatever illness a person has.

The barriers to accessing healthcare for minority citizens are many. Some attribute inaccessibility to medical facilities that do not have enough equipment, medicine or room to accommodate them. Others attribute it to the exorbitant prices hospitals charge even with the help of insurance. Whatever the barrier, it is evident that the poor and the migrants who are still building their lives from the ground up are being denied the healthcare they deserve in a social welfare society.

The American dream of having better lives and lifestyles is not the only lure to migrants. A better healthcare is also one of the major reasons why some people have migrated to the United States and left their countries, as evidenced by migrants from Pakistan and other countries that have inadequate healthcare.

While congress debates on the law on improving healthcare, many Latinos are being denied healthcare as if it were an alternative punishment to them andor their kin who have crossed the border as illegal immigrants. Sure, illegal immigration, constant ghetto violence, and drug dealing are some things that the US should not stand for, but the US does have a moral obligation to help those in need especially with the abundance the country has been having relative to their third world counterparts. More importantly, they have a social contract with their citizens for the government to take care of them and put their taxes to good use  meaning, to be of use to the taxpayers in the form of healthcare.
Improvement in healthcare means action and not just debate on which will suck out the most cash out of the Feds budget. Its time for the grassroots who are most affected to band together and tell the government exactly what they need. The government seems too pampered by their own personal doctors that they think their delay is not costing the lives of, not just Hispanics, but other minorities and the marginalized.