Who We Are

The Healthcare Equality Project (HEP) is a national partnership between nationwide and community-based organizations, faith networks, students, parents and individuals working to achieve comprehensive health care reform that will eliminate healthcare disparities once and for all. We want to ensure that healthcare reform efforts- beyond simply expanding insurance coverage - become an engine for reducing the unfair, pervasive and life-threatening healthcare disparities that plague women, racial, ethnic and other minorities. Our nation urgently needs healthcare that works for everyone!

The Healthcare Equality Project was created to bring together diverse organizations to develop and implement a strategy to integrate healthcare equality solutions into the broader reform effort. A central piece of this strategy is to unite, strengthen, and amplify the voices from communities of color in the fight for healthcare equality.

Why It Matters

We know that our healthcare system is in critical condition, but for some Americans, particularly racial and ethnic minorities, the crisis runs even deeper. For far too long, African Americans, Latinos, Asian and Pacific Islanders and Native Americans have endured systemic healthcare inequalities that have resulted in greater suffering from chronic diseases, shorter life spans, and an overall lower quality of life. Even among the insured, glaring disparities exist between these communities and their white counterparts in the access to and quality of care for nearly every ailment.

The Healthcare Equality Project, aims to be an organizing platform at which many different types of organizations - labor, social justice, healthcare advocacy, consumer, and religious groups and everything in between - can come together with a simple, unified message for our elected leaders: We need a just healthcare system that improves the health and well being of ALL Americans with concrete investments in eliminating healthcare disparities.