Quartz
How High Prices for Diabetes Care Amplify Health Inequities

In light of the Black Lives Matter movement, my op-ed explores how diabetes medical suppliers are actively manufacturing and marketing our life support to perpetuate a world where temporary cures are only available to those who can afford them. Price gouging practices, which put disproportionately more BIPOC lives at risk, are validated each time an essential diabetes supplier is welcomed as a friendly face in the diabetes community.

Read the article here and if you hit the paywall, the full piece is also on Yahoo News.

Writer, Photographer, and Illustrator: Myself
Editor: Katie Palmer
Special thanks to Larkin Clark, Svati Narula, Leeron Hoory, and Karlynn Holland
Summer 2020