Twenty years after the groundbreaking Institute of Medicine report Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, the US health system is still fundamentally broken. Racism and its pernicious legacy affect the conditions in which Americans live, the places they live, and the ways that they live. When it comes to health in America, a person's zip code matters more than their genetic code. A nakedly profit-focused approach to healthcare emphasizes downstream interventions while upstream causes remain largely unchecked. Everyone pays a price, and those who have been made vulnerable by racism pay the most--often with their lives.
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