Policymakers recognized access alone cannot fix racial health gaps

Evidence

Senator Elizabeth Warren and then-Senator Kamala Harris each had plans to deal with ameliorating racism in the healthcare field. Warren’s plan focused on financial incentives for hospitals, while Harris’s focused on implicit bias training and a pilot program assigning a caseworker for Medicaid beneficiaries with high-risk pregnancies. The success of those approaches was far from proven, but they are significant because they recognized that access alone was insufficient to create better health outcomes for black Americans. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 419

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Access to care alone fails to fix racist health outcomes. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 419; Wealth alone cannot overcome racial bias in healthcare delivery. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 418; Racial health inequality persists even among well-educated Black people with healthcare access — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 959 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Access to care alone fails to fix racist health outcomes. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 419; Wealth alone cannot overcome racial bias in healthcare delivery. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 418; Racial health inequality persists even among well-educated Black people with healthcare access — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project: A New American Origin…, 959 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Access to care alone fails to fix racist health outcomes. #expands (0.92) — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 419