In a country founded on principles of equality of opportunity, the fact that race and ethnicity are associated with poor health gives rise to the question…is the American health care system unjust as it relates to the equitable distribution of healthcare. Since the early 1940s the U.S. has recognized that minorities face different health outcomes than their non-minority counterparts. In fact, a study conducted by McCord and Freeman found that the health outcomes of blacks in 1990 were comparable to those of whites in the 1920s. The study showed that the health outcomes of black males living in an American inner city were worse than those of males living in Bangladesh. Since that time numerous reports demonstrating disparities in rates of morbidity, mortality, disease, and injury have shown that the health outcomes of racial and ethnic minorities are persistently worse than those of the non-minority in several major categories.
Health Disparities
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I have the same question and I can think of a god answer, I know that many third world countries have all kinds of healthcare ensures for all citizens and are not crazy expensive like here in the United States. Like healthcare, medication is also very expensive in the U.S. according to Lita Epsstein on her blog “6 Reasons Realthcare is so Expensive in the U.S.”(2015) Another major difference in health costs between the U.S. and every other developed nation is the cost of drugs. The public definitely believes drug costs are unreasonable; now politicians are starting to believe that too. In most countries the government negotiates drug prices with the drug makers, but when Congress created Medicare Part D, it specifically denied Medicare the right to use its power to negotiate drug prices. The Veteran’s Administration and Medicaid, which can negotiate drug prices, pay the lowest drug prices. The Congressional Budget Office has found that just by giving the low-income beneficiaries of Medicare Part D the same discount Medicaid recipients get, the federal government would save $116 billion over 10 years. Think of what the savings might be if all Medicare recipients could benefit from Medicaid-negotiated drug prices!
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