All Americans deserve the opportunity to achieve their highest level of health. Unfortunately, disparities persist across low-income communities in the United States, exacerbated by factors such as race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation/gender identity, and disability status. The Black community, in particular, experiences worse health outcomes when compared to white Americans — driven largely by economic and social issues caused by long-term discrimination and racism. Through its efforts at state and local levels, CHCS is working to foster alignment across diverse sectors aimed at addressing the many factors that create barriers to health.
Medicaid is the health insurer for 45 percent of births in the United States and 66 percent of all births to Black mothers. Given the disparate rates of maternal mortality and morbidity between Black and indigenous people and white people in the U.S., there is an opportunity for state Medicaid agencies to take the lead in implementing policies… Read more »
Advancing innovations in health care delivery for low-income Americans