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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

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They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.”

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Learning from Dr. Eric Topol, Live from Medecision Liberation 2019

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Riffing on his great book, Deep Medicine: How AI Can Humanize Health Care , Eric started his talk donning my own professional hat as a heath economist, sharing data about America’s high health care spending with low ROI yield. “The U.S.

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

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In a few years’ time, I was reading Martin Luther King’s book, Why We Can’t Wait ; The Autobiography of Malcolm X , and Native Son by Richard Wright — still, one of my favorite books. This post is updated from previous versions that have run here on Health Populi to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, s, birthday. .