Nicole Flatow

@nicflatow.bsky.social

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Managing Editor at Bloomberg CityLab. Stories and justice for all. Views are my own.

The very fact that this meeting is necessary incriminates the US healthcare system, whose labyrinth of unaffordable bills and unavailable appointments can seem designed to prevent people from getting the treatment they need. Livia Alejo, 37, the woman now whispering “Dios mío” as Flores explains her situation through tears, isn’t a doctor, a nurse, a therapist, a government employee or an insurance representative. As a community health worker, she’s simply trying to make up for the systemic failures of all five.
A map shows the proposed canal bisecting the European side of Turkey.