By: Tadi Abedje White people are still the majority in America despite the latest 2020 census data revealing that the country is getting more diverse. According to the United States Census Bureau website, white people alone consist of 76.3% percent of the country as of July 1, 2019. There are studies in the Journal of the American Medical Association that provide data on health care spending in America. Predictably, it found that white people spend more than any other racial group. At the University of Washington, a team at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation investigated the breakdown of health care spending from 2002 to 2016 among 7.3 million health visits. In their findings, they found that whites were responsible for 72% of the $2.4 trillion in health care spending in 2016, while […]
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