As we endeavor to push forward to change the future, we must first understand the past. Colonization, slavery, segregation, apartheid, systemic racism – these experiences created a foundation of mistrust rooted in history.
Some of this history can be found here:
Here is a small sampling of formative events in U.S. history that have shaped the relationship communities of color have with medical research and the health care system. This list is by no means exhaustive, but we hope it helps pave the way for candid dialogue that guides our work on equity.
Slavery
Gynecology/Experimentation On Enslaved Women
Closing Of Medical Schools/Exclusion Of Future Health Providers
Birth Control Experimentation Puerto Rico
The Tuskegee Experiment
Henrietta Lacks
Radioactive iodine
1. 1619 - 1730: Slavery
1. 1845 - 1849: Gynecology/Experimentation On Enslaved Women
3. 1870: Closing Of Medical Schools/Exclusion Of Future Health Providers
4. 1930s - 1970s: Birth Control Experimentation Puerto Rico
5. 1932 - 1972: The Tuskegee Experiment
6. 1951: Henrietta Lacks
7. 1956 - 1957 : Radioactive iodine
Slavery (1619 - 1730)
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Gynecology/Experimentation On Enslaved Women (1845 - 1849)
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Closing Of Medical Schools/Exclusion Of Future Health Providers (1870)
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Birth Control Experimentation Puerto Rico (1930s - 1970s)
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The Tuskegee Experiment (1932 - 1972)
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Henrietta Lacks (1951)
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Radioactive iodine (1956 - 1957)
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1. End the Pandemic & Build a More Resilient System
Our first order of business is to end the COVID-19 pandemic. We must also prepare for the challenges ahead. To do so, we need more of the innovation and discovery that led to the vaccines and a stronger scientific delivery system from top to bottom.
We can end the current pandemic and create a more resilient health care system for the future by:
Fulfilling the Commitment
Enhanced Supply Chain
Investing In Preparedness
Anti-Microbial Resistance
Fulfilling the Commitment
Fulfilling the biopharmaceutical industry’s commitment to help end the pandemic by expanding collaboration and manufacturing capacity and ensuring affordability and access to COVID-19 vaccines andtherapeutics.
Gynecology/Experimentation On Enslaved Women (1845 - 1849)
Fulfilling the biopharmaceutical industry’s commitment to help end the pandemic by expanding collaboration and manufacturing capacity and ensuring affordability and access to COVID-19 vaccines andtherapeutics.
Fulfilling the biopharmaceutical industry’s commitment to help end the pandemic by expanding collaboration and manufacturing capacity and ensuring affordability and access to COVID-19 vaccines andtherapeutics.
Closing Of Medical Schools/Exclusion Of Future Health Providers (1870)
Fulfilling the biopharmaceutical industry’s commitment to help end the pandemic by expanding collaboration and manufacturing capacity and ensuring affordability and access to COVID-19 vaccines andtherapeutics.
Anti-Microbial Resistance
Fulfilling the biopharmaceutical industry’s commitment to help end the pandemic by expanding collaboration and manufacturing capacity and ensuring affordability and access to COVID-19 vaccines andtherapeutics.
2. Make Medicines More Affordable
Every reform must pass a simple test: does it benefit the patient and protect future innovation? Temporary fixes based on political rhetoric are destabilizing and counterproductive – only sustainable, patient-centered solutions will help those who need it the most. We propose policies to make medicines more affordable by:
Modernizing Medicare Slavery
Make Insurance Work
Protect The Safety Net
End Incentives
Modernizing Medicare
Modernizing how Medicare covers and pays for medicines, including capping out-of-pocket costs in Part D, lowering cost sharing and spreading those costs over the calendar year, and making sure the savings negotiated with health plans are passed to patients. It also includes implementing a market-based adjustment in Part B that would allow the government and seniors to benefit from more of the savings already negotiated in the commercial market, which could save some seniors hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars each year
Make Insurance Work
Modernizing how Medicare covers and pays for medicines, including capping out-of-pocket costs in Part D, lowering cost sharing and spreading those costs over the calendar year, and making sure the savings negotiated with health plans are passed to patients. It also includes implementing a market-based adjustment in Part B that would allow the government and seniors to benefit from more of the savings already negotiated in the commercial market, which could save some seniors hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars each year
Protect The Safety Net
Modernizing how Medicare covers and pays for medicines, including capping out-of-pocket costs in Part D, lowering cost sharing and spreading those costs over the calendar year, and making sure the savings negotiated with health plans are passed to patients. It also includes implementing a market-based adjustment in Part B that would allow the government and seniors to benefit from more of the savings already negotiated in the commercial market, which could save some seniors hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars each year
End Incentives
Modernizing how Medicare covers and pays for medicines, including capping out-of-pocket costs in Part D, lowering cost sharing and spreading those costs over the calendar year, and making sure the savings negotiated with health plans are passed to patients. It also includes implementing a market-based adjustment in Part B that would allow the government and seniors to benefit from more of the savings already negotiated in the commercial market, which could save some seniors hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars each year
2. Make Medicines More Affordable
Every reform must pass a simple test: does it benefit the patient and protect future innovation? Temporary fixes based on political rhetoric are destabilizing and counterproductive – only sustainable, patient-centered solutions will help those who need it the most. We propose policies to make medicines more affordable by:
Improving Clinical Trial Diversity Slavery
Invest in Data
Invest in Data
Invest in Data
Promote Best Practices
Align With Equity Goals
Invest in Data
Improving Clinical Trial Diversity
Modernizing how Medicare covers and pays for medicines, including capping out-of-pocket costs in Part D, lowering cost sharing and spreading those costs over the calendar year, and making sure the savings negotiated with health plans are passed to patients. It also includes implementing a market-based adjustment in Part B that would allow the government and seniors to benefit from more of the savings already negotiated in the commercial market, which could save some seniors hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars each year
Invest in Data
Modernizing how Medicare covers and pays for medicines, including capping out-of-pocket costs in Part D, lowering cost sharing and spreading those costs over the calendar year, and making sure the savings negotiated with health plans are passed to patients. It also includes implementing a market-based adjustment in Part B that would allow the government and seniors to benefit from more of the savings already negotiated in the commercial market, which could save some seniors hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars each year
Invest in Data
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Invest in Data
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Promote Best Practices
Modernizing how Medicare covers and pays for medicines, including capping out-of-pocket costs in Part D, lowering cost sharing and spreading those costs over the calendar year, and making sure the savings negotiated with health plans are passed to patients. It also includes implementing a market-based adjustment in Part B that would allow the government and seniors to benefit from more of the savings already negotiated in the commercial market, which could save some seniors hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars each year
Align With Equity Goals
Modernizing how Medicare covers and pays for medicines, including capping out-of-pocket costs in Part D, lowering cost sharing and spreading those costs over the calendar year, and making sure the savings negotiated with health plans are passed to patients. It also includes implementing a market-based adjustment in Part B that would allow the government and seniors to benefit from more of the savings already negotiated in the commercial market, which could save some seniors hundreds – if not thousands – of dollars each year
Invest in Data
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