Race-based healthcare is coming to the US

Reparations in healthcare? Yes, it’s a thing. Throughout the nation, leading healthcare systems have been implementing programs that look to race to determine how to care for patients.

Physicians at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and elsewhere have described this approach as being based on a “reparations framework,” which they say is needed to redress “institutional racism” in healthcare. Consequently, Brigham patients presenting with chest pain, for example, may be treated differently depending on their race.

Brigham has touted a race-based program for addressing disparities in heart failure for certain minority patients. While the type of care needed to address heart failure depends on severity and not every case requires specialized cardiology services, Brigham’s program aims to use a patient’s race to determine what level of care is needed.

Read more on the Washington Examiner.