Black, Hispanic and Native Americans have poorer health care than white people, even in states with health care systems that do better than in most of the rest of the country, according to a new national study.Wisconsin ranks right in the middle for its overall health care system’s performance — worse than 24 states and the District of Columbia, but better than 25 states. For Black residents, however, Wisconsin’s health care system has the fifth-worst overall performance in the country, according to the study released Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund.
“We find that health equity does not exist in any state in the U.S., not even in states with historically stronger health systems,” said David Radley, a Commonwealth Fund senior scientist and one of the study’s authors...
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