Survey Highlights Unequal US Health Care System

Keeva Blackwood, Deidra Fryer, and Tricia Stewart Moody have a few things in common. They all live in Maryland, all of them are Black mothers, and they all believe the medical community in this country discriminates against African Americans. They say they or their loved ones have experienced discrimination in a health care setting first-hand.

Blackwood, a 42-year-old woman from Columbia, MD, is a business analyst for Medicaid programs. She used to see white doctors, but no more. All her doctors now are Black.

“That was intentional because of the previous care that I feel like I received. That I wasn’t taken seriously when I came in with a concern. It was either they were going to throw...