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This bill, the Equal Health Care for All Act, aims to prohibit discrimination in health care and require the provision of equitable health care. The key provisions of the bill include: 1. Requiring health care providers to report data on health outcomes disaggregated by demographic characteristics like race, national origin, sex, disability, and age to identify patterns of inequitable health care. 2. Incorporating measures related to equitable health care in the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program, which ties Medicare payments to hospital performance. 3. Allowing the exclusion of health care providers from Medicare and Medicaid programs if they have engaged in a pattern of providing inequitable health care. 4. Establishing the Office for Civil Rights and Health Equity within the Department of Health and Human Services to monitor and address discrimination in health care. 5. Prohibiting health care providers from subjecting individuals to the provision of inequitable health care based on factors like race, sex, disability, age, or religion. 6. Providing a complaint and conciliation process for individuals who have experienced inequitable health care, as well as allowing for private lawsuits and enforcement by the Attorney General. 7. Establishing a Federal Health Equity Commission to monitor and report on progress towards health equity and the elimination of health disparities. The overall goal of the bill is to address systemic inequities and biases in the provision of health care, in order to ensure equitable access and outcomes for all patients.

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