Entrenched racism is making the U.S. sicker

The U.S. health care system has codified racism since its pre-Reconstruction beginnings, when treatment was used as a means of controlling newly freed Black Americans. Today, Black citizens must navigate institutions that still devalue their lives, pain, and needs -- and it's making our country sicker.

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