For the sake of history and, the auspices of a bountiful potential of a great people of a Great Nation may there be boldness and courage in the noble battle waged to address social determinants of health within US healthcare? History has revealed the health and well being of a Nation and its people is as important as matters of national security.
Thus, stands the profound import of equitable access to good health and wellness within the United States of America and Nations around the world. Health inequity is a battle on American soil that is on par with battles waged upon foreign soils. Everyday invaluable lives are lost or wounded as a result of unaddressed social determinants of health. Is it possible these were among the thoughts of the late, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., proclaiming “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane?”
It was as if these were a kind of prophetic word among the many “stones of truth” Dr. King dropped as if from a very high place within the universe. And from there was created a moral force so great that it caused wisdom to penetrated and sever the soul of a Nation from the weighted burden of its history. King’s truth was whole and intact, a forceful collide upon seemingly calm surface-waters of a Nation as yet to gaze upon its own truest image within the universes divine mirror of moral consciousness. It was a time in history wherein undercurrents of injustice within the institution of US healthcare would, at times, raze the ethical pledge “to do no harm.”
King’s truth of injustice in healthcare continues to ripple across contemporary healthcare as if a kind of tsunami swelled now breaking the shoreline of America unveiling linger causes of community and public health crisis. They present as avoidable catastrophic healthcare spend, waste, fraud, and abuse within at-risk underserved communities of America. Sadly, for as long as injustice in healthcare has existed, whether inadvertent or, for other reasoning, such healthcare delivery events have been and remain preventable to a significant extent, which Dr. King knew well.
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King’s truth of injustice in healthcare continues to ripple across contemporary healthcare as if a kind of tsunami swelled now breaking the shoreline of America unveiling linger causes of community and public health crisis. They present as avoidable catastrophic healthcare spend, waste, fraud, and abuse within at-risk underserved communities of America. Sadly, for as long as injustice in healthcare has existed, whether inadvertent or, for other reasoning, such healthcare delivery events have been and remain preventable to a significant extent, which Dr. King knew well.
Source: HIT Consultant
