Race still a barrier to Health care 
Monday, June 14, 2004 at 02:52AM
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A patient's skin color often plays a bigger role than health insurance, income or education in determining the quality of medical care he or she receives, according to a leading health researcher. Blacks tend to get poorer health care than whites even when socio-economic factors such as ability to pay are factored out, said Brian Smedley of the Institute of Medicine, a nonprofit in Washington, D.C. [more]
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