New health care bill, the wrong choice for African Americans
In 1954,
Our representatives are on the brink of instating a health care plan that epitomizes separate and unequal. Thirteen
Their proposed bill, the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), based on of the House's American Health Care Act (AHCA), would only benefit people like themselves - healthy, wealthy white men - and quarantine the rest of the country into the confines of high cost, low quality health care.
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In more than twenty years as a health and social policy professional, I have witnessed the dire consequences of African Americans living without health care, and I have watched the ACA repair some of the most egregious inequities in our health care system. If the
The current version of the
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But the sick are not the only ones that the
The ACA cut the uninsured rate for
Our nation does not need a new health reform law. The ACA is the most comprehensive legislative effort to improve and democratize health care access in our nation's history. We need to bolster the ACA's promises of progress, not regress to conditions that were unacceptable then and are indefensible now. We need
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