| To review the Covid-19 pandemic and its disproportionate casualties and deaths in communities of color. Longtime inequities in the American health care system are exposed. | 
        
        
        
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                        | Health care systems in New Mexico and the US were founded by charitable organizations often named for saints. In the 1980’s, health care was transformed into the profit-driven industry it is today. This history, and the inherent inequities in a for-profit health care system are reviewed. | 
        
        
        
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                        | Foundations for inequities in New Mexico will be reviewed, drawing upon the scholarship of George Isidore Sanchez. | 
        
        
        
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