[Abishek_Muthian]

As hard as for anyone who couldn't afford a $1000 drug or someone who couldn't afford a $100...

The ugliness of inequality fueled by capitalism is more pronounced in medical treatments, I've witnessed it firsthand several times.

In early 90s as 6-7 year old I had to undergo a revolutionary treatment at most expensive private hospital in India, days before surgery the doctor privately demand a large sum of unaccounted money. This repeated several times for subsequent surgeries and my father had to go in large debt each time.

We were a middle-class family by Indian standards yet my family's lifestyle were severely limited by from my medical expenditures, A poor family doesn't even stand a chance. What's worse is that the doctor had made incorrect diagnosis of my ailment at that time which lead me to a life-threatening recently.

This is what worries me about the COVID pandemic, Medical professionals who honestly believed that they're doing a service to humanity rushed to the front lines without any regard to their or their family's safety and many of them have perished. Now the ratio of corrupt entrepreneurs masquerading as medical professionals who flew to COVID-free islands during pandemic to the medical professionals who treat their profession as a service has now further worsened.