Racial and ethnic health disparities are pervasive in the US, across most causes of death and in most counties, new study shows | CNN

Researchers tracked US mortality data across nearly two decades, breaking rates down by race and ethnicity and to the county level. They found that Black and American Indian people had the highest overall mortality rates each year from 2000 to 2019, and that these groups also had the highest mortality rates for nearly all causes of death nationwide.

“Racism is still fairly rampant within the health care system,” he said. “But with those four broad categories, most of the challenges get fixed when there’s a system where everyone is in and nobody is out – that is when prices are affordable so that people can actually pay for the care that they need and everyone is getting treated with the dignity and respect that they need.

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