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Poorer and minority older adults are suspicious of the US health care system – a new study shows why

  • Written by Marc Cohen, Clinical Professor of Gerontology, University of Massachusetts Boston
imageResearch shows racial, economic and health inequities are deeply intertwined.monkeybusinessimages via Getty Images

Just over two weeks before she died of complications from COVID-19 in December 2020, Dr. Susan G. Moore recorded a smartphone video from her bed in an Indiana hospital. In the recording, which went viral, the Black physician accused a...

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