4sight Health October 15, 2025
From 1983 to 2018, I was a white male with commercial health insurance through my employer. From 2018 to 2023, I was a white male with commercial health insurance through my wife’s employer. In 2024, I was a white male with commercial health insurance purchased over an ACA health insurance exchange. This year, I’m a white male with traditional Medicare coverage.
Though the source of my health insurance has changed over the years, one thing hasn’t changed: I’m still a white male. That has given me certain privileges thanks to the systematic racism in healthcare.
One of those privileges, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open, is a faster response from my primary care physician (PCP) to...
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