Low-health literacy is incredibly prevalent in the United States. Furthermore, health literacy is disproportionately distributed, with groups that face the worst health outcomes having the lowest health literacy. This reflects a great need to improve the rates of health literacy in the United States. However, achieving health literacy is more than an individual endeavor and requires the efforts of organizations to promote health literacy. This article aims to evaluate barriers to attaining health literacy and unbraid the reasons for disparities in health literacy. From this information, possible measures that organizations can take to improve health literacy rates emerge. The second aim of this article is to propose such measures from the knowledge compiled in the first portion of the article.