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Marianne Engelman Lado
excerpted from: Marianne Engelman Lado, Unfinished
Agenda: the Need for Civil Rights Litigation to Address Race
Discrimination and Inequalities in Health Care Delivery, 6 Texas Forum
on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 1- 45 (Summer 2001)(218 Footnotes
Omitted)
V. Conclusion (p. 45)
Inequalities in access to health care continue today to exacerbate
racial and ethnic disparities in morbidity and mortality rates. As the
history of civil rights litigation to address discrimination and
inequality in health care delivery suggests, litigation can play a
significant role in challenging inequity and generating reform.
Nonetheless, there is currently no organized bar nor any effective
agency to monitor or ensure civil rights compliance by health care
providers. Civil rights advocates now have the opportunity to make a
crucial difference in whether providers and insurers and, particularly,
MCOs, will take seriously their obligations under civil rights laws or,
instead, whether patterns of discrimination and exclusion will continue
unrecorded and unabated.
Introduction
Racial Disparities and Civil Rights
Historical Perspectives and Civil Rights Enforcement
Litigation and Advocacy
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