Category Archives: medical bigotry

30 Organizations Urge HHS/OCR To Take New Steps To Prevent Healthcare Discrimination

February 15, 2021discrimination, dredf, futile care, futility, health disparities, healthcare rationing, HHS, life-sustaining treatment, medical bigotry, medical discrimination, organ transplants, Our News & Commentary Blog, Patients Rights Action Fund, Quality Adjusted Life Yearshealthcare disparities, healthcare rationing, HHS Office for Civil Rights, medical discriminationDiane Coleman

Not Dead Yet, with partners the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund and the Patients Rights Action Fund, have assembled a total of 30 disability rights and racial justice organizations to support further regulatory action by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights. Specifically, the groups are urging the formal … Continue reading 30 Organizations Urge HHS/OCR To Take New Steps To Prevent Healthcare Discrimination →

Anita Cameron: Racial Disparities in the Age of COVID-19

April 23, 2020access to health care, Anita Cameron, discrimination, health disparities, healthcare rationing, medical bigotry, medical discrimination, Our News & Commentary Blog, racismAnita Cameron, COVID-19, healthcare rationing, racial disparitiesDiane Coleman

Racial disparities in healthcare have always existed but it’s only been recently that it has been openly discussed as a serious issue in this country. Blacks and communities of color have always known about it because we experience it ourselves, first-hand. Studies show that we receive inferior healthcare compared to Whites. Little by little, the … Continue reading Anita Cameron: Racial Disparities in the Age of COVID-19 →

Disability Advocates Demand Seat At the HHS Table In Design of Value-Based Healthcare Payment Systems

May 3, 2015bioethics, cost containment, daly, devaluation, medical bigotry, medical discrimination, Medicare, Our News & Commentary Blog, qalyNot Dead Yet, Partnership to Improve Patient Care, Secretary Sylvia Burwell, ValueBased Payment SystemsDiane Coleman

Last Thursday, Not Dead Yet was one of “over 70 individual patients and patient organizations” that joined the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) in a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), calling for recognition of us as stakeholders in the Better, Smarter, Healthier initiative and in the Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network. … Continue reading Disability Advocates Demand Seat At the HHS Table In Design of Value-Based Healthcare Payment Systems →

Disability and Representation blog: “Amanda Baggs, The Pressure To Die, and the Case Against Assisted Suicide” by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg

April 7, 2013Amanda Baggs, autism, autistic activists, better dead than disabled, blog recommendations, bloggers, Disability and Representation, medical bigotry, medical discrimination, Our News & Commentary Blog, Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg, vermontStephen Drake

For about a week now, activists and advocates have been engaging in the fight to safeguard the health and safety of Amanda Baggs, one woman dealing with medical ignorance, apparent bigotry, and regular messages that her life isn’t one worth saving. Even now, a positive outcome isn’t assured. (I direct blog readers to just peruse … Continue reading Disability and Representation blog: “Amanda Baggs, The Pressure To Die, and the Case Against Assisted Suicide” by Rachel Cohen-Rottenberg →