STAT, June 26, 2024, National Academies Proposes Reimagining Health Care To Fix ‘Fundamental Flaws’ That Underlie Inequity
The nation’s longstanding racial and ethnic health inequities will not improve unless Congress steps in to provide affordable health insurance for all and federal agencies start enforcing existing laws against discrimination and improve collection of racial and ethnic data, said the authors of a new report released Wednesday.
Called “Ending Unequal Treatment,” it was issued by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine some two decades after the groundbreaking 2003 “Unequal Treatment” report laid bare the fact that people of color experienced the health care system differently and received worse care, regardless of income, social status or education, and that structural racism ran rife throughout health care.
