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Next Steps in Health Reform: Hospitals, Medicaid Expansion, and Racial Equity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Dayna Bowen Matthew
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Abstract

The confluence of racial unrest and Medicaid expansion in Virginia should inspire a national reimagining of how health care can contribute to health equity. Hospitals in particular can leverage their role as economic drivers in communities to equalize health and social outcomes for all. The urgent need for innovative opioid intervention presents a fertile proving ground for new ways that hospitals can act to reduce the impact of racial inequity. Inspired by the role hospitals played to achieve desegregation during the Civil Rights era, this essay proposes an integrated approach to use Medicaid expansion to advance health and racial healing in America.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 46 , Issue 4: Next Steps in Health Reform , Winter 2018 , pp. 906 - 912
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2018

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