Here's a few excerpts from just one scholarly article citing a wealth of carefully conducted studies on racial discrimination in healthcare. It took me about five minutes to find, and there are many more.
RACISM AND HEALTH CARE IN AMERICA: LEGAL RESPONSES TO RACIAL DISPARITIES IN THE ALLOCATION OF KIDNEYS
Cara A. Fauci*
http://www.bc.edu/dam/files/schools/law/lawreviews/journals/bctwj/21_1/02_TXT.htm
Statistical data indicates that African-American babies have lower birth weights and are more likely to die during the first year of life [*PG42]than children born to European-American parents.61 For example, African-American babies are twice as likely to die during the first year of life as European-American babies, and children born in countries that are significantly less developed than the United States, such as Kuwait, Costa Rica and Singapore, are more likely to live past age one than children born to African Americans in the United States.62
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Scholars devoted to the study of racial discrimination in the medical profession have also drawn attention to the fact that African Americans are less likely to be prescribed medication than European Americans. 96 For example, in 1994 the New England Journal of Medicine reported that African-American AIDS patients received prescriptions for needed medications less frequently than European-American AIDS patients even after income, insurance status, mode of HIV transmission and place of residence were controlled for.97 Another study conducted on racial discrimination in the dissemination of prescription medication found that African-American children were less likely to leave doctor’s appointments with prescriptions than European-American children.98
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Research also reveals that, on average, African Americans receive less aggressive treatment for various physical ailments even after income adjustments are made to the data.103 For instance, studies pertaining to cardiac treatment reveal that African-American men are half as likely to undergo coronary angiography and one third as likely to undergo coronary artery bypass surgery as European-American men.104 These astonishing statistics are even more troubling in light of the fact that African-American males are more likely to suffer from heart disease than European-American males.105
Studies also indicate that the intensity of treatment within the realm of internal medicine is influenced by racial considerations.106 Even after income differentials are taken into account, research reveals that African-American patients are less likely to be treated aggressively for illnesses and/or conditions such as pneumonia, kidney failure, and glaucoma than European Americans.
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Research indicates that, after adjusting for income, some procedures are in fact performed with greater frequency on African-American patients than on European Americans suffering from the same ailments.111 Unfortunately, those procedures are of the type that most people, regardless of race, would hope to avoid undergoing.112 For example, African Americans are three times more likely than European Americans to have a partial or total amputation of the leg.113 Similarly, African-American men are twice as likely to have a bilateral orchietomy in attempts to treat prostate cancer than European-American men.114 The implications of this research indicate that the medical profession may detect certain illnesses in African Americans at more advanced stages.115 As a consequence, less invasive and less drastic treatment measures are no longer viable.116
Knowing this, if it was your teenaged child that needed a heart transplant, would you question whether race played a role in his being denied? Would you fight it with everything you had?
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