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The Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities helps create dialogue on racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare. Created by the Institute of Medicine in 2007, the Roundtable examines the development of programs and strategies to reduce disparities. For the past several years, a major topic of discussion has been the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its effects upon ethnic and racial minorities.
The ACA has several provisions specifically designed to encourage minorities to participate in eliminating the gap in health disparities. A workshop was held recently to discuss the effects of the ACA at the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, CT, entitled “Achieving Health Equity via the Affordable Care Act: Promises, Provisions, and Making Reform a Reality for Diverse Patients.” The results of this workshop were released via a report recently by the Institute of Medicine.
Sponsored and hosted by the Connecticut Health Foundation, the workshop addressed many issues surrounding the ACA, including its expanding coverage, its delivery systems, and access. The workshop summaries contain the opinions of the presenters, but do not reflect the conclusions of the Institute of Medicine.
By The Numbers
25.1
percent
of Latinos remain without health insurance coverage
