Melinda Gates discusses the role of caregiving in reopening U.S. economy
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation co-chair, Melinda Gates, discusses the importance of caregiving and fixing the 'broken' system that has been exposed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Video Transcript
MELINDA GATES: Caregiving is something that so many people are doing in their homes. We do it every single day. It's caring for the young. It's often caring for the old. We have had a broken caregiving system in the United States for over 50 years now. And we're the only industrialized nation that doesn't think about caregiving and value it.
And so what's happening is during this COVID-19 time, it's exposing that broken caregiving system. And we can't get people back to work and rebuild the economy unless we really focus on this caregiving piece and do the right things.