Is the U.S. healthcare system segregated? Not in the sense that it was 50 years ago, when many hospitals had separate wards for blacks and whites. Such overt discrimination by doctors and hospitals ended with the civil rights movement, with a nudge from Medicare. Yet “de facto segregation” remains in practice, according to research published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
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