02/27/22 International Business Times: To Lower Drug Prices, Should Progressives Follow This Billionaire?
A new front just opened in the battle to lower drug prices, and serial entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban is leading the charge....
Recent News
02/18/22 Alzforum: On Aduhelm, Medicare Agency Gets Pressure From All Sides
Behold the deluge. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposal last month to restrict Aduhelm coverage to clinical trials stirred up such strong feelings on both sides that the usual 30-day public comment period following every CMS.....
12/28/21 The Tennessean: Why prescription drug access should be treated as a racial justice issue
There's a growing awareness of the many reasons people of color experience poor health outcomes, including the stresses of racism itself. But one area of racial health disparity isn't often discussed: the lack of equitable access to prescription drugs....
12/17/21 Statesman Journal: Oregon needs Build Back Better health care now
For Oregonians hit hardest by the pandemic, President Biden's Build Back Better legislation could send the help desperately needed by far too many poor and underserved communities. ...
10/01/21 Comcast Newsmakers: COVID-19: Achieving Health Equity
The COVID-19 pandemic magnified longstanding gaps in health outcomes for underserved communities. Amy Hinojosa, President and CEO of MANA, A National Latina Organization, joins host Tetiana Anderson representing the Health Equity Collaborative, which was formed in response to the pandemic’s impact on minority populations, to...
06/15/21 Modern Healthcare: With The Help Of Black Women, We Can Boost Vaccine Acceptance And Uptake
Black Americans have been hit hardest by COVID-19. Yet we’re also much less likely to take the vaccines. In the District of Columbia, for example, Blacks account for 55% of all COVID-19 cases and 70% of all deaths, yet have received only 40% of vaccinations....
04/26/21 The Hill: American women should have access to safe contraceptives
Eleven years ago, Congress passed the Affordable Care Act and began the largest expansion of access to health care in this country in five decades. This landmark law gave 20 million previously uninsured Americans access to health care. But that was not all....
04/07/21 Politico: Progressive, civil rights groups call for health equity emphasis
A coalition of more than 30 civil rights, progressive and multicultural groups is appealing to the Biden administration and lawmakers on the Hill to adopt their policy guidelines and “engage directly with community-based organizations and public health advocates when developing interventions to measurably improve health...
04/07/21 PR Newswire: Health Equity Collaborative Leads National Community Organizations in Submitting New Health Equity Guidelines to Lawmakers
Cision - Today, a coalition of 33 progressive, civil rights, and multicultural organizations sent a letter to Congress and the Biden administration outlining new guidelines to elevate health equity....
02/13/21 Austin American-Statesman: Bring the health equity fight to drug development
Black and Latino patients have far less access to potentially life-saving experimental drugs than white Americans. As the Biden administration and research industry address the COVID-19 pandemic and plan for the next one, they must make health equity a priority in our nation's drug development...
01/10/21 International Business Times: To Save Lives, Clinical Trials Need Diversity
Underrepresentation is a big problem for minority patients on an individual level. Clinical trial participants get to take life-saving treatments years before those medicines become available to the public....
08/09/20 South Florida Sun Sentinel: Diabetes reform brings needed relief to seniors, but more action needed
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) just took an important step towards addressing one of the worst public health crises of our time. No, not COVID-19, but a disease that chronically affects millions of Americans: diabetes. ...