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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