The race-based inequalities in health insurance and health outcomes

In the United States, there are significant racial disparities in access to health coverage and in health outcomes. People of color are far more likely to be uninsured in America, due in part to several states’ refusal to expand Medicaid. The infant and maternal mortality rates for Black babies and mothers are also far higher than those of white babies and mothers – and nobody really knows why.

As Brookings Fellow Christen Linke Young explains in this video, policymakers, scientists, and physicians should all be paying more attention to these issues, and together we should ask ourselves what more we can do to address them.

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