{"id":6150,"date":"2026-01-22T03:48:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyworkerusa.com\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T21:04:48","slug":"racism-in-the-u-s-healthcare-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyworkerusa.com\/index.php\/racism-in-the-u-s-healthcare-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism in the U.S. Healthcare System"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by Samuel Gomes Rodrigues Jr.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The treatment of working-class people, particularly people of color, and especially women, within the United States Healthcare System are some of the most egregious moments to occur in medical history. Malpractice based on racism has been reported and studied for multiple years.\u00a0The majority of\u00a0these incidents have affected Black women disproportionately. Many Black women have been reported to receive inequitable care, over surveillance of patients and their families, and structural care issues. Historically it was standard medical belief and practice that Black women were genetically predisposed to having a stronger tolerance for pain compared to White women, thus needing less care and attention. This systemic inequality, primarily affecting Black and Indigenous American women, have caused high mortality rates for pregnant mothers and newborns.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyone who has studied history knows that these methods are not new and were somehow worse in the past. In the 1960s and 1970s the Indian Health Service, an operating division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, coerced and forced Indigenous American women to be sterilized. Between 1970-1976, 20-50% of Indigenous American women were sterilized. Black people were also historically subjected to inhumane and unethical experiments. One of the most infamous was the Tuskegee Experiments where\u00a0Black U.S. Air Force pilots were unknowingly infected with syphilis. In\u00a01851, the American physician Samuel A. Cartwright hypothesized that freed\u00a0African-Americans\u00a0wished for freedom from chattel slavery due to mental illness.\u00a0In 1958\u00a0African-American\u00a0pastor and Civil Rights activist Clennon W. King, Jr. was arrested and confined to a mental institution for trying to enroll in the University of Mississippi for a summer graduate course. The arresting officer\u2019s comment on why King spent twelve days institutionalized was quoted saying, \u201cAny n*****r who tried to enter Ole Miss must be crazy.\u201d In 1968 and even through the 1970s\u00a0psychiatrists were known for regularly diagnosing Black Civil Rights activists with a \u201cform of schizophrenia\u201d that would be shown by various \u201csymptoms\u201d such\u00a0as,\u00a0\u201cprojection\u201d, \u201canger\u201d, \u201cprojected anger\u201d, and \u201chostility\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today systemic racism is still a significant obstacle for working-class neighborhoods, especially those with a significant population of racial minorities. Studies and reports have shown that these neighborhoods\u00a0have a tendency to\u00a0have a higher chance for hospitals to\u00a0close down, with hospitals in\u00a0predominately Black\u00a0communities being most likely to\u00a0close down. On\u00a0average\u00a0Black residents tend to live farther from health providers than White residents. A few years\u00a0ago,\u00a0the United States government openly acknowledged that, \u201cinadequate health insurance coverage is one of the largest barriers to health care access, and the unequal distribution of coverage contributes to disparities in health.\u201d.\u00a0An example of this is shown by the fact that low-income Black residents receive lower quality health insurance or no health insurance whatsoever compared to high-income White residents. Healthcare is a Human Right. It is reprehensible and saddening at the fact that Corporate America&#8217;s deep-seated racism has tainted basic medical care.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Retrieved from the American Council for a National Health Service &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/acnhs.org\/\">Home &#8211; acnhs.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Bibliography<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paragraph 1:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Chambers, Brittany D et al. \u201cClinicians&#8217; Perspectives on Racism and Black Women&#8217;s Maternal Health.\u201d Women&#8217;s&nbsp;health&nbsp;reports&nbsp;(New Rochelle, N.Y.) vol. 3,1 476-482. 4 May. 2022, doi:10.1089\/whr.2021.0148)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Rodriguez-Knutsen, Ana. \u201cWhy BIPOC Women Receive Unequal Health Care.\u201d&nbsp;<em>YWCA<\/em>, 8 Feb. 2023,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ywcaworks.org\/blogs\/ywca\/BIPOC-unequal-health-care#:~:text=This%20gender%20bias%20is%20particularly,emergencies%20and%20deaths%20every%20year.&amp;text=Businesswoman%20and%20professional%20tennis%20player,as%20the%20symptoms%20men%20experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.ywcaworks.org\/blogs\/ywca\/BIPOC-unequal-health-care#:~:text=This%20gender%20bias%20is%20particularly,emergencies%20and%20deaths%20every%20year.&amp;text=Businesswoman%20and%20professional%20tennis%20player,as%20the%20symptoms%20men%20experience<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paragraph 2:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Blakemore, Erin. \u201cThe Little-Known History of the Forced Sterilization of Native American Women.\u201d&nbsp;<em>JSTOR Daily<\/em>, 25 Aug. 2016,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/daily.jstor.org\/the-little-known-history-of-the-forced-sterilization-of-native-american-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">daily.jstor.org\/the-little-known-history-of-the-forced-sterilization-of-native-american-women\/<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Indian Health Service. \u201cAgency Overview.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Indian Health Service<\/em>,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihs.gov\/aboutihs\/overview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.ihs.gov\/aboutihs\/overview\/<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(McVean, Ada. \u201c40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study.\u201d&nbsp;<em>McGill<\/em>, 25 Jan. 2019,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/oss\/article\/history\/40-years-human-experimentation-america-tuskegee-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.mcgill.ca\/oss\/article\/history\/40-years-human-experimentation-america-tuskegee-study<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. \u201cThe Political Abuse of Psychiatry against Dissenting Voices.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Hogg Foundation for Mental Health<\/em>, 27 Feb. 2020,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/hogg.utexas.edu\/the-political-abuse-of-psychiatry-against-dissenting-voices#:~:text=In%201968%20a%20new%20version%20of%20the,actions%20of%20protestors%20and%20civil%20rights%20activists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hogg.utexas.edu\/the-political-abuse-of-psychiatry-against-dissenting-voices#:~:text=In%201968%20a%20new%20version%20of%20the,actions%20of%20protestors%20and%20civil%20rights%20activists<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Paragraph 3:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(L. Tung, Elizabeth, et al. \u201cAssociations of U.S. Hospital Closure (2007\u20132018) with Area Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Racial\/Ethnic Composition.\u201d&nbsp;<em>PMC PubMed Central<\/em>, 2 Mar. 2024,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11144480\/#:~:text=A%20study%20of%206%2C467%20U.S.%20hospitals%20from,socioeconomic%20disadvantage%20were%20more%20likely%20to%20close\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC11144480\/#:~:text=A%20study%20of%206%2C467%20U.S.%20hospitals%20from,socioeconomic%20disadvantage%20were%20more%20likely%20to%20close<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Guo,&nbsp;Jingchuan, et al. \u201cRacial Disparities in Access to Health Care Infrastructure across US Counties: A Geographic Information Systems Analysis.\u201d&nbsp;<em>PMC PubMed Central<\/em>, 11 Apr. 2023,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10126491\/#:~:text=Black%20residents%20were%20significantly%20more,difference%20was%20not%20statistically%20significant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10126491\/#:~:text=Black%20residents%20were%20significantly%20more,difference%20was%20not%20statistically%20significant<\/a>.)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Yearby ,&nbsp;Ruqaiijah, et al. \u201cStructural Racism in Historical and Modern US Health Care Policy.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Health Affairs<\/em>, vol. 41, no. 2, Feb. 2022, www.healthaffairs.org\/doi\/10.1377\/hlthaff.2021.01466#:~:text=high%2Dquality%20care.-,3,people%5D%20with%20good%20health.%E2%80%9D.) &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Samuel Gomes Rodrigues Jr.&nbsp; The treatment of working-class people, particularly people of color, and especially women, within the United States Healthcare System are some of the most egregious moments to occur in medical history. Malpractice based on racism has been reported and studied for multiple years.\u00a0The majority of\u00a0these incidents have affected Black women disproportionately. 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