Access to Healthcare
According to the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), 36 million Americans do not have access to basic health care. This number represents one in eight Americans (36 million Americans lack access to basic health care) who reside mostly in inner cities and in isolated rural communities. Half of these people are from low-income families and two in five are minorities. As many as twenty-eight percent of Latinos are medically unserved. Unfortunately, the problem of the high number of uninsured and disparities in healthcare treatment is growing, presenting significant barriers to social justice for all Americans.
Currently, the high number of uninsured Americans is feeding a vicious cycle of increasing the number of people that lack insurance (Marks, 2002). This is because the uninsured tend to delay care until their problem reaches a crisis. At this point, they go to the emergency room which is expensive and inefficient. And, the uninsured often can't afford the bill. This bad debt for hospitals is passed on to people who do have insurance through even higher costs. Thus, insurance costs increase which makes it even more expensive for employers to provide health insurance, further increasing the number of uninsured people.
The United States is the only industrialized country that does not offer health coverage to all its citizens (Health and social justice). The World Health Organization ranked the United States 37th in the world in overall health system performance and 72nd on population health in 2000. We have become a "majority minority" nation where there is significant evidence of disparities in healthcare and the problem is only growing worse. For example, death rates from cancer, heart disease, and diabetes are significantly higher in racial and ethnic minorities than in whites. These disparities are unacceptable; every person seeking healthcare have the opportunity to receive the best possible care and treatment, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender and religion.
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