Advancing Equity in 2022: Federal Policy Priorities to Promote Health Equity and Health System Transformation

Our nation must heed the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has taken a disproportionate toll on people of color and exposed painful but persistent truths about structural inequities in access to health care. It is time for Congress and the Biden administration to take action to advance health equity by improving equity in our health delivery systems.

In this Fact Sheet, Families USA’s Health Equity Task Force for Delivery and Payment Transformation lays out a set of twelve legislative and administrative policy priorities that would improve population health and advance health equity, with a focus on health care payment and delivery system reforms.