Equality vs. equity in a publicly funded healthcare system

By Andria Bianchi Living in a publicly funded healthcare system may lead some providers and/or organizations to strive to achieve a system of complete equality when it comes to the implementation of services. The idea that we ought to treat all people in the same way irrespective of other factors that may be relevant to their identity (e.g. race, gender, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, culture, language, religion, disability, socioeconomic status, age, etc.) is prevalent; this is primarily what it means to treat people equally. Using equality as a guiding principle is, in many ways, commendable and helpful. It is commendable in that it suggests that all individuals ought to have equal access to receive the same care in the same kind of way, which

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