Opinion: Dialysis care offers lessons for achieving health equity in the U.S.

Health equity is an important goal for the U.S. health care system, though one it is still far from achieving. That means providing every person with the same opportunity to receive high-quality care, regardless of their income or race.

According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, achieving health equity requires “removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.”

Achieving health equity at a local level is challenging. Doing so consistently at a national scale is rare. Yet that is exactly what one U.S. health care sector — dialysis care —