Webinar Highlights Importance of Language Access and Data Collection
Posted March 12th, 2012 by Ellen WuOur Equity and the ACA webinar series got off to a great start in January with a presentation from Peter Lee of the California Health Benefit Exchange, and our next web forum promises to be equally interesting and informative.
Of the 6.7 million Californians eligible for Medi-Cal and tax credits in the Health Benefit Exchange through the ACA, about 70% (4.73 million) are people of color and approximately 40% (2.56 million) speak English less than very well. These statistics demonstrate the imperative for the implementation of health care reform to address the unique needs of our diverse communities.
Join us for CPEHN’s next webinar, Equity and the ACA: Advancing Language Access and Data Collection, to hear how California can build upon its existing language access laws and data collection efforts to create a more equitable health care system for communities of color. The webinar is scheduled for this Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 9:00 am PT. Ignatius Bau and I are the featured speakers.
Equity and the ACA: Advancing Language Access and Data Collection will highlight strategies to ensure that all Californians have access to and can understand their care and how improved data collection can help inform those strategies. This is a free event, so register today!
Ellen Wu is Executive Director of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network. In 2012, CPEHN is celebrating 20 years as a champion for health equity.
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March 14, 2012 at 11:49 am by Susan JohnsonHow much does this social engineering cost taxpayers in addition to the cost of insuring all Americans under the Affordable Care Act? To target a specific race or races and invest taxpayer funds to provide resources that would exclude other races, is racist to the core. The more I hear about the ACA, and the crazy things it includes that has nothing to do with healthcare, the more I concur with the majority of the American people who dislike it.
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