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Addressing Disparities In Health And Health Care: Issues For Reform, Marsha Lillie-Blanton
Addressing Disparities In Health And Health Care: Issues For Reform, Marsha Lillie-Blanton
Health Policy and Management Congressional Testimonies
The testimony focuses on the role of health insurance in reducing disparities in health care and in health status, two distinct but related challenges. Disparities in health care – whether in insurance coverage, access, or quality of care – are one of many factors producing inequalities in health status in the U.S. Eliminating disparities in health among segments of the population (e.g., by race/ethnicity, education, income, gender, geographic location) was one of two overarching goals of Healthy People 2010, the federal government’s blueprint for what it wanted to achieve in health by the end of this decade.