Op-Ed: How rising hospital costs increase healthcare inequities for marginalized communities

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Op-Ed: How rising hospital costs increase healthcare inequities for marginalized communities
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Metropolitan anchor hospitals serving low-income communities are disproportionately affected by the problems facing the entire healthcare system.

Across the state, California’s hospitals are facing serious challenges — particularly those institutions serving our urban, low-income and historically marginalized communities., as they have come to be known, play a vital role in advancing health equity and are disproportionately affected by the problems facing the entire healthcare system.

of the United States’ gross domestic product, a sharp rise from 2019 and more than four times higher than in 1960. COVID-19 helped fuel the rapid acceleration of healthcare costs, pushing hospitals to the brink. For America’s urban safety net hospitals, these increases have made it even harder to provide care in high-need communities.Too few doctors can afford to practice in the communities that rely on Medi-Cal, which are largely made up of people of color.

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