Dr. Fleck published in ‘Hastings Center Report’ on Black Lives Matter and inequities in the U.S. healthcare system

In the current issue of the Hastings Center Report, Center Acting Director and Professor Dr. Leonard Fleck shared a perspective on “Some Lives Matter: The Dirty Little Secret of the U.S. Health Care System.”

Abstract: Our health care system in the United States reflects the inequities that are part of the larger society, which is why our system for financing access to needed and effective health care is so complicated and unfair.

Visit the journal’s website for free access to the full text. Dr. Fleck is one of more than 200 Hastings Center Fellows.

To our #health care system, only some lives matter. In this FREE piece by Dr. Fleck in HCR, he talks about how Black lives matter. "Sickle cell disease afflicts about one hundred thousand Americans, the vast majority of whom are Black." #BLM @msubioethics https://t.co/cDc62n0MEh

— The Hastings Center (@hastingscenter) October 30, 2020