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Do members of disadvantaged minority groups receive poorer health care than whites? Overwhelming evidence shows that they do.¹ Among national policymakers, there is bipartisan acknowledgment of this bitter truth. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson has said that health disparities are a national priority, and congressional Democrats and Republicans are advocating competing remedies.^2,3

So why did the DHHS issue a report last year, just days before Christmas, dismissing the "implication" that racial differences in care "result in adverse health outcomes" or "imply moral error . . . in any way"?⁴ And why did top officials tell . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

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