Repeating Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for health-care equity

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, reflects on her brush 50 years ago with Martin Luther King Jr. and how equity in health care must be a priority for society.

Two generations ago, when Dr. King issued a stinging indictment of the inequalities of the health of Americans, I had no idea how much his words would affect my life, or all of our lives. He said, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane."

He was spot on then and it's spot on today. America simply cannot reconcile the differences that divide us without also reconciling the inequality and injustice that's embedded so deeply in the health and health care of our people. Read the full article...