California Health and Safety Code

§ 127370

HSC § 127370 Effective Jan 1, 2022Div. 107 · Part 2 · Ch. 2 · Art. 3

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)The COVID-19 health emergency has thrown into sharp relief longstanding health inequities along racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines. Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous people have been disproportionately affected during the pandemic; for example, the age-adjusted mortality rate among Black people with COVID-19 is more than three times as high as that of Whites.

(b)Disparities in access to care and quality of care contribute to racial health disparities. The disparate impact of the pandemic has highlighted the tiered nature of the current health care system, a structure that significantly impacts the quality of care patients receive along racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 751, Sec. 2. (AB 1204) Effective January 1, 2022.