Health disparities represent a significant strand in the fabric of racial injustice in the United States, one that has … limited progress in narrowing the health gap between whites and racial and ethnic minorities. The implementation of the … Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the movement toward value-based payment methods for health care may supply a new avenue for …

Health Surveys, the Project for Statistics on Living Standards and Development and a database of hospital and clinic lo … seeing disability after access to better health care, but this difference dissipates by ten years after the policy change. We … find no evidence of improvement in anthropometric outcomes, but we find increased contacts with the formal health care …