2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I Would Like To Put A Question Forward... How Does One Legislate Social Justice ??? [View all]BOSNYCDC
(66 posts)Example: Health systems have to report quality data to CMS. They do not have to stratify those data by, say, race. We know health care inequities exist. No health system (with 1 or 2 exceptions I know of) measures those gaps. No one requires it. No one is accountable for making sure all patients regardless of economic status or race get the same high quality care with relative parity of health outcomes. Structural racism and injustice continues
Example: We have data that show children of color are more likely that white kids to be suspended or expelled for behavior that gets whites kids, say, a trip to the guidance counselor. Yet school funding is not tied to the narrowing of these disparities. No one is accountable and structural racism and injustice continues.