The articles and news coverage of problems in how to access American medical care are described as health-care disparities. This is the policy-makers way of talking about poverty, joblessness, or racial/gender/age discrimination. These are all difficult problems to overcome if one is to get good medical care.

It is often stated that many of those conditions occur in a setting of less access to care. But more often, the feeling of less access is more a…

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