Health Equity

Fighting the Institutionalization of Racism in Medicaid

Abstract: We discuss how block grants and other recent pushes in Medicaid policy in combination with established structural discriminatory practices negatively affect Black Americans and other people of color.

Publication: The Incidental Economist

Date Published: October 16, 2020

Author(s): Multiple Authors

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