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When health insurance discrimination follows geographic and racial lines

My health insurance keeps denying treatments that I know would be approved immediately if I lived in a whiter, wealthier zip code, and I am running out of energy to keep fighting a system designed to exhaust me into giving up.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The person faces the deliberate structural violence of having life-sustaining care withheld through bureaucratic processes designed to exploit their exhaustion.

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“Where Are You with Healthcare equity and structural racism in medicine?”

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