I Call It Murder Analysis

The book County, the documentary I Call It Murder, and the presentation I Can’t Breathe, Racism, and Public Health in Chicago addresses the health care disparities American face. According to the National Institutes of Health, healthcare disparities is defined as “the differences in access to or availability of healthcare facilities and services…This inequity results in the variation in rates of disease and occurrence and disabilities between socioeconomic and/or geographically defined populations” (HSRIC). The Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act of 2000 expanded on this working definition by adding that this population’s “overall rate of disease, incidence, prevalence, morbidity, morality, and survival rate presents a significant disparity as compared to the health status of the general population” (Thomson et al.). Most healthcare professionals will tell you that patient …show more content…
Ansell’s writing in County. It directly showed the issue of patient dumping, the patient population it serves, and the problems with the current American health care system. The doctors in the documentary explained that patients at County are one’s in the worst condition, they are poor, black, brown, and are the ones that gets transferred to them from other hospitals. The reasons for transfer ranges from the other hospitals not having beds, but is secretly because the patient involved is black and/or does not have insurance. The patients at Cook “represents society as an illness,” and these patients are the ones most oppressed by society (I Call It Murder). One doctor in particular commented and essentially agreed with Dr. Ansell’s view on universal healthcare through a single payer system. As the documentary was closing, she declared that the consequences of these health disparities and inequities present at Cook and in the rest of the United states is “called murder” (I Call It