HIT Consultant July 9, 2025
Despite decades of panels, pledges, and policy proposals, healthcare inequity remains a systemic issue in day-to-day experience of the American healthcare consumer. The data is overwhelming – patients in lower-income ZIP codes have worse healthcare outcomes, people of lower socio-economic tiers are more likely to suffer from preventable conditions. Access to timely, quality care is still a privilege. Equity in healthcare is different from the equity discussion that’s playing out right now in education or the federal government.
This is not a blanket argument for more DEI. When maternal health outcomes are worse for African American & Hispanic populations, all of us are impacted. The American taxpayer carries the economic burden of healthcare inequity – we spend more on Medicare,...
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