This AEI event examined what can be learned from the research on geographic variation in health spending.

Many experts today insist that a patient’s race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with him. The notion that physicians are biased against minorities––overtly or subtly––has acquired considerable weight in both academic literature and the popular press. In their new book The Health Disparities Myth (AEI Press, 2006), authors...

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Are doctors prejudiced?

It is long past time to put aside the incendiary claim that racism plays a meaningful role in the health status of African-Americans.

The "biased-doctor" model is a woeful misimpression of reality, but one that has become a staple of the "health disparities" campaign.

The HHS report on health care disparities rightly attacks the disparity issue as a socioeconomic problem tied to access to quality care and to the health literacy of potential patients.

Science and politics do not mix very well, particularly when it comes to such hot-button issues as diversity.