Achieving Health Equity through Health Care Reform: Current State and Outlook

Moving beyond access: achieving equity in state health care reform.

The Institute of Medicine's 2003 Unequal Treatment report raised the public's and policymakers' awareness of racial and ethnic health care disparities, but federal policy-makers have implemented few of the report's more than two dozen recommendations. State health care reform efforts, however, are gaining support around the country and have great potential to reduce health care inequality. This...

Leveling the field--ensuring equity through national health care reform.

2401 beds, it could trigger additional facility closures. Access to care will be diminished for the insured and uninsured alike. Voting for the status quo may be politically tempting, but it won’t stop the steady erosion of coverage in the United States. The authors of the 2009 IOM report were blunt: “There is no evidence,” they wrote, “to suggest that the trends driving loss of insurance cover...

Primary health care in rural and remote Australia: achieving equity of access and outcomes through national reform A discussion paper

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On Achieving Access and Equity in Health Care

This paper addresses some of the issues related to health care in the United States. In so doing, I give primary emphasis to questions involving access to health care. Even so, I limit the discussion of any particular topic to its most important facets. The principle of selection involves various criteria: insofar as possible, I discuss those issues that are important at a system level (particu...

The state of US health-care reform.