Privatized Healthcare, Insurance Exploitation & Healthcare as a Human Right

Privatized healthcare in the U.S. has turned a human need into a profit engine, where insurance companies and hospital systems exploit illness for financial gain. Working Black people in D.C. bear the brunt of this system—facing rising costs, denial of care, and worsening health outcomes tied to racial and class inequality.

Join Pan-African Community Action (PACA) to discuss how capitalist healthcare and insurance exploitation reproduce crises rather than care, while funding is diverted from communities’ basic needs toward war, policing, and imperial projects abroad. Together, we will examine people-centered health models in places like Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua and discuss how community control over health can serve as a foundation for collective survival and liberation.