The better question is the chronic lack of affordable health care for minorities and the paucity, and the gross underfunding of, public health clinics and other testing and treatment facilities in poor and minority communities the real culprit? There is plenty of evidence to support that. Another daunting question is: Has the real and perceived abuse and racial disparities in the health care system made many Blacks distrustful and wary of the medical system? There is plenty of evidence to support that too.
The JAMA podcast and the flame it ignited is yet another opportunity to tackle anew a long-standing demand. That's to ensure that health care and treatment are equitable, affordable, and accessible for poor African Americans and Hispanics as for whites. Then it might be said "no physician is racist.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His latest book is I Can't BreatheThe Never-Ending George Floyds. (Middle Passage Press) He is the host of the weekly Hutchinson Report on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles and the Pacifica Network. His political affairs commentaries can be found weekly on thehutchinsonreport.net.
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