Why the Virus Is a Civil Rights Issue: ‘The Pain Will Not Be Shared Equally’

First came early data showing that the coronavirus affected African-Americans disproportionately. Then came the fight for a fair response and recovery.

 America's Forgotten Civil Right - Healthcare

There is a solution called “universal coverage” whereby everyone is extended the civil right and dignity to healthcare. Every other industrialized country (with a formal healthcare system) has adopted universal coverage as the very foundation of their healthcare system. So why haven’t we?

 Protecting Our Civil Rights in the Era of Digital Health

As growing technological prowess enables sophisticated discrimination capabilities, our reach for health and economic benefit stands to collide with the ethical core of medicine.

 The Covid Civil-Rights Mask

The Department of Education elbows into another cultural battle.

 The pandemic illustrates how precious and fragile our civil liberties are

People have seen that governments or their departments can impose severe restrictions on us at the stroke of a pen. We have been made subject to curfews, punitive fines and uneven policing. Our borders have been closed,

 With Roots In Civil Rights, Community Health Centers Push For Equity In The Pandemic

Equal access to care in rural communities is necessary to reach the most vulnerable populations, and is just as critical during this global health crisis as it was in the 1960s, according to Dr. Robert Smith.

Bad Medicine: The Harm That Comes From Racism

Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act stipulates that neither race, color nor national origin may be used as a means of denying the “benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.” As nearly every facet of the American health system receives federal financing and support, well-documented and present-day discrimination in health care suggests the law has not yet had its intended effect.

Being Black in America Is a Health Risk. It's Time for Reparations.

Cash would not only be a form of repayment, it would also undeniably improve people's health.

Civil rights as determinants of public health and racial and ethnic health equity...

Civil rights laws and their enforcement are social determinants of health because they affect other social determinants of health, that is, elements of a society’s organization and process, such as education, housing, transportation, employment, and the system of justice...

Healthcare as a civil rights issue

Strengthening the Civil Rights Act might improve minority health care by bolstering minority patients’ trust in the health care system, increasing physicians’ diligence, and as a result increasing the patients’ willingness to seek care...

Hospitals rationing drugs behind closed doors: a civil rights issue

We need to acknowledge that rationing decisions are being made in the U.S. health system. The limitations on care, the reasons for them and how care will be dispensed should be debated openly.

The Case for Watered-Down Legislation

What health care reform advocates can learn from the 1957 Civil Rights Act.

The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights

The country cannot follow through on its commitment to equal protection for life and liberty under the law without addressing fundamental inequalities in mortality.

The Looming Civil-Liberties Battle

The stage is set for a post-shutdown showdown between personal freedom and public health.

The US medical system is still haunted by slavery

Medicine’s dark history helps explain why black mothers are dying at alarming rates.

U.S. Civil Rights Office Rejects Rationing Medical Care Based on Disability, Age

Medical providers must not engage in “ruthless utilitarianism” in deciding who gets lifesaving treatment for the coronavirus, a federal civil rights officer warned.