Health Care in a Context of Civil Rights

摘要

A thorough going effort to find out if the health care a person gets in America is affected by race, ethnicity, or handicaps has discovered much evidence that it is, but that hard facts are lacking to prove discrimination. This study was not intended to prove that discrimination exists or to recommend enforcement actions against it; it was intended to document the extent to which race, ethnicity, or handicaps are associated with disparities in persons' abilities to obtain care and in the amount and quality of care they receive.