Atrue public health solution to inadequate care would focus resources on improving the quality of care and self-care regardless of race.

The majority of Americans not voting for Obama are doing so because of the issues he stands for, not his race.

Many experts today insist that race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with patients and that a black patient will get inferior care. Is this true?

Most racial preferences--for example, in college admissions--are shrouded in secrecy and dishonesty.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

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

The Supreme Court is almost the only place in American society where the "frank" debates on issues of race that Attorney General Eric Holder recently called for actually take place.

The authors of this book conclude that differences in treatment vary by race but not because of it.