Ethnic minorities receive markedly worse healthcare in every US state, finds Commonwealth Fund

Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans receive less effective and timely healthcare than white Americans in all 50 US states, according to a report by the Commonwealth Fund.1The survey measured 25 performance indicators such as premature avoidable deaths, insurance coverage, out-of-pocket costs, emergency department use, time to first treatment following cancer diagnosis, and access to primary and preventive care. Its key finding, said report co-author David Radley, was that “health equity does not exist in any state in the US.”Like the US government, the report breaks the population into five demographic categories: white, black, Hispanic, American Indian or Alaskan Native, and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI). In most states, this last category receives medical care on a par with that of white Americans, but black, Hispanic, and Native Americans do not.When listed in order of the performance score for the best treated group—which is always either white or…
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