The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated the deep structural inequities experienced by Black people every single day. Current elected and appointed officials continue to exacerbate these issues by prioritizing business interests over people’s lives.
OPINION: The fight against ‘medical red-lining’ on the North Side
The lived experience of African Americans in Milwaukee is one of great inequity and lack of access to appropriate health care services. We simply cannot allow Ascension, the largest non-profit health system in the U.S., to let St. Joseph Hospital die a slow death.