Racial and Ethnic Minorities Healthcare Disparities
Racial discrimination in delivering healthcare has been a problem facing the American community for a very long time. Fiscella et al., (2000) claim that the most affected people include the people of color specifically the African Americans, the Hispanics, Latinos, and other races in the U.S community. The government has introduced several initiatives that try to reduce the gap in delivering equitable healthcare by providing the Affordable Care Act that would see the minority benefiting from the programs.
Health care disparities among the race and ethnic minorities have affected the provision of equitable health care in the society, hence, reducing the proposed healthcare projection that was enacted to reduce cases of health issues. However, the race and the ethic disparity have become a problem in the whole country where the minorities are affected in every corner of the healthcare system (Chin, et al., 2012). For instance, the ethnic minority groups are neglected in acquiring health insurance, quality healthcare, access to healthcare, and other disparities associated with healthcare delivery (Fiscella et al., 2000). Therefore, this brief policy would see the development of the proposed arguments affecting the current health disparities in healthcare provision.
Background
The race and ethnic health care disparity have affected the productivity of health policies in the U.S community. However, the move has not received much development as proposed since the problem comes in the implementation procedures. The government introduced a policy as an Act known as Affordable Care Act that aims at providing equitable and affordable health insurance to the ethnic minority groups as well as addressing the socioeconomic causes of health disparities (Smith et al., 2007). The Act aims at reducing the disparities between the insured and the uninsured mostly to the ethnic minority groups. The people of color have a history of lacking the appropriate health insurance due to racial discrimination as well as socioeconomic disparities (Chin, et al., 2012). Therefore, the Act has tried to help every race attain an equivalent healthcare insurance that would help them achieve the goal of equitable healthcare.
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Analysis
Redesigning the policy in attaining an equitable healthcare productivity would mean that the government has to incorporate meaningful measure that would reduce the causes of ethnic healthcare disparities. Therefore, the brief would act as an agent in reaching the government officials that have the power to implement the desired policies in the implementation of equitable healthcare programs. For instance, research has shown that the government neglecting the idea of equitable provision of health care would incur an increased amount of healthcare expenditure (Fiscella, et al., 2000). The statistics suggest that the U.S government would incur an approximate of $3 Trillion in the subsequent period if the issue of health disparities would not have a solution (Fiscella, et al., 2000). Similarly, the need for improving the provision of equitable health care facilities in the community would help in minimizing the risks associated with the rise of the affected ethnic groups. Studies have shown that the American community has a significant percentage of the American population and the number would rise to a higher level compared to the current position and the 2050 population estimate (Fiscella et al., 2000). Therefore, the government should act on the issue affecting the racial healthcare disparity or else the population would decrease.
The policy and the brief should account for the available minority healthcare disparities that have affected the development of healthcare productivity. However, the government might fail in establishing adequate steps in achieving their objective since the ethnic differences start from other positions apart from the healthcare department (Chin, et al., 2012). Racial discrimination has affected the interaction of almost every race where the minority receives severe discrimination. For instance, the education system has barred the minority races in attaining the desired level of scientific education that would help them achieve a specific level of literacy in health matters (Smith et al., 2007). Therefore, the problem of the failure of achieving the desired level of healthcare should start by the government addressing issues affecting discrimination where the minority races should have equal treatment as that of the other races in the U.S.
Conclusion
The brief policy should help the government address the issue affecting the ethnic minority groups in attaining the desired healthcare programs. However, reports have claimed the existence of inequitable resource allocation that has affected the productivity of healthcare programs. Therefore, the government has to change some strategies in addressing the issue thus, improving the provision of healthcare facilities to the society in an equitable procedure. The minority race has recorded several cases of neglect from the community that has led to the ethnicity disparity in delivering healthcare.
References
Chin, M. H., Clarke, A. R., Nocon, R. S., Casey, A. A., Goddu, A. P., Keesecker, N. M., & Cook, S. C. (2012). A roadmap and best practices for organizations to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care. Journal of general internal medicine, 27(8), 992-1000. doi:10.1007/s11606-012-2082-9
Fiscella, K., Franks, P., Gold, M. R., & Clancy, C. M. (2000). Inequality in quality: addressing socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic disparities in health care. Jama, 283(19), 2579-2584. doi:10.1001/jama.283.19.2579
Smith, W. R., Betancourt, J. R., Wynia, M. K., Bussey-Jones, J., Stone, V. E., Phillips, C. O., … & Bowles, J. (2007). Recommendations for teaching about racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care. Annals of Internal Medicine, 147(9), 654-665. DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-147-9-200711060-00010
