Equal Health Care for All: Prohibiting Discrimination and Improving Quality
This act aims to ensure that every citizen receives high-quality healthcare, regardless of background, gender, disability, or age. It introduces new data collection rules to better understand and eliminate healthcare inequities, and establishes mechanisms for filing complaints and enforcing patient rights. This means hospitals will be required to strive for equitable care, and citizens will gain tools to combat discrimination in healthcare.
Key points
Prohibits discrimination in healthcare based on race, sex (including sexual orientation and gender identity), disability, age, or religion.
Requires collection and public availability of disaggregated health outcome data to identify and eliminate disparities.
Establishes the Office for Civil Rights and Health Equity to receive complaints and investigate instances of discrimination.
Allows for the exclusion of healthcare providers from Medicare and Medicaid programs for a pattern of providing inequitable care.
Creates a Federal Health Equity Commission to monitor progress and recommend actions to eliminate health disparities.
Provides grants to hospitals to promote equitable healthcare and reduce disparities in care and outcomes.
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