Voices: A bat in my sink revealed a dark truth about our healthcare system
Kayti Sullivan’s op-ed details her family’s struggle to access affordable rabies treatment after discovering a bat in their home. She argues that the prohibitive cost of the vaccine highlights systemic flaws in U.S. health policy regarding essential preventative care. Sullivan frames her experience as a predictable outcome of a healthcare system that often prioritizes financial barriers over public health accessibility.
“My family is not a cautionary tale; we’re a predictable result of how U.S. health policy treats one vaccine,” Kayti Sullivan writes in an op-ed.
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