health The Washington Post 6 months ago

They’re medics, social workers, neighbors and 911. Meet the health care workers who do it all. - The Washington Post

They’re medics, social workers, neighbors and 911. Meet the health care workers who do it all. - The Washington Post

The Community Paramedic program in Yancey County, North Carolina, is part of a nationwide effort to reduce nonemergency calls and to close health care gaps.

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This story is a glaring indictment of our broken, for-profit healthcare system, where frontline heroes are left to patch up its gaping wounds with band-aids. In a society that prioritizes profit over people, it's left to the underpaid and overworked to carry the burden of care, embodying a makeshift community healthcare model that should already be a universal right. The resilience of these paramedics is commendable, but their necessity is a stark reflection of capitalism's utter failure to protect the most vulnerable among us.

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