An illustration of health care inequality. Credit: Emily Smith, University of Michigan In 2003, Americans learned just how unequal health care in the United States really was. A major report by an eminent group of experts showed wide gaps in how people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds received care for many different conditions—even if they had the same income or insurance coverage. Of course, people from Black, Hispanic, Native American and certain other backgrounds had lived that inequality for centuries. And researchers had documented it since the 1960s. But Read More