Latino health care is being left behind

“Did you feel the quality of your health care improve last year? You may have missed it. The recent National Healthcare Quality Report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that, for 44 core measures, overall quality of care for Americans improved at a rate of 2.8 percent. It sounds small, but that’s actually quite impressive for a nationwide improvement.

If you’re Latino, however, your quality of care worsened. The companion National Healthcare Disparities Report found that inequities in quality of care and access to care are easing for all race and ethnic groups — except Latinos. Latinos received poorer quality of care than whites in more than half of 38 measures, and worse access to care for seven of eight measures. Nearly 60 percent of the disparities for 34 quality-of-care measures got worse for Latinos, and more than 80 percent of the disparities for access-to-care measures worsened for them.”

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