Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic,Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom are all countries that have free healthcare. But the United States do not have free healthcare and isn't available for a large portion of the country. “Unavailable” referring to the unemployed , or part time workers. As stated in Chapter 7 of Women's Voices: Feminist Visions, Edition 6, “President Obama’s healthcare reform efforts resulted in the absence of a public option and limits on abortion coverage. Still, these changes in healthcare made sure that everyone in the United States have some kind of health insurance coverage.” This is progress and progression.
Although, 19 million women did not have health insurance in 2013 and “low-income women (who are disproportionately women of color) to postpone care and delay preventive procedure (364)”. This is due to the fact that “women are more likely to be employed in part time or full time work without health insurance benefits (364)”. This all leads up to a much larger problem. Environmental racism is an oppression based on toxic wastes and chemicals being dumped into poor income communities. This causes their to be more health issues with the people living in these areas like women being more likely to chronic conditions and acute problems due to unsafe drinking water, pollution, and the pesticides. Some of the chemicals include home bleach and cleaning supplies. Another important issue which is environmental estrogens. They are a synthetic estrogen that “mimic human estrogen and how estrogens affect the body. These indirectly disrupts the way human estrogen is produced (372)”. Synthetic estrogens do not break down well and stay in fat cells that lead to diseases like breast cancer and testicular cancer.
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