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Civil Rights & Healthcare
Civil Rights & Healthcare

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Why Healthcare Needs A Civil Rights-Style Movement

There will come a time in the not too distant future when we look back at the healthcare system as it is today with shame and embarrassment. We’ll wonder how anyone got the right kind of care and rue the policy and clinical decisions that have made oursystem unaffordable, inaccessible, wasteful, and inferior to our peer nations.

To hear some people discuss healthcare these days, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) fixed the healthcare system. But that’s not really true. The ACA broadened the tent and made health insurance coverage available to more people. But the tent poles now need to be replaced.

More than a decade since the ACA’s major provisions became law, America still…

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 Why Healthcare Needs A Civil Rights-Style Movement

There will come a time in the not too distant future when we look back at the healthcare system as it is today with shame and embarrassment. We’ll wonder how anyone got the right kind of care and rue the policy and clinical decisions that have made oursystem unaffordable, inaccessible, wasteful, and inferior to our peer nations.

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Title VI protects people of every race, color, or national origin from discrimination in programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance from HHS.

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