Advocacy Agenda

  • End the segregation that still exists in health care facilities more than 40 years after the Civil Rights Act.
  • Effective Policy must support strict compliance with existing government health plan contracts, the redress of contract violations, and regulations that ensure equal care for all patients.
  • Work to create a more representative health care workforce.
  • Effective policy must support funding for programs that recruit minorities into the health professions, and demand greater diversity in the admissions practices of medical schools and other health professional schools.
  • Stand up for insurance coverage for all.
  • Effective policy must support a comprehensive health care delivery system funded by comprehensive insurance coverage.
  • Make it possible for everyone to get culturally competent care.
  • Effective policy must advocate for the use of Medicaid funds to assure the availability of qualified translators within health care organizations, and support cultural competence training as part of state licensure requirements.
  • Ensure that public money is invested in public health education.
  • Effective policy must help to direct public funds toward community based outreach and public health education.
  • Ensure that uncompensated care funds meet their intended use.
  • Effective policy must create mechanisms that bring greater accountability to the equitable distribution of uncompensated care pools.
  • Recognize and end environmental racism and the toll it takes on communities of color.
  • Effective policy must end the proportionately higher impact of environmental pollution on low-income communities of color by documenting and preventing the adverse health effects associated with existing and potential conditions.

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