ThinkProgress article: Author of ‘The Death Gap’ talks about health care inequities
Scientific racism and lack of access to quality health care hurts low-income families and people of color.
Although the Affordable Care Act has expanded health care access for millions of people, unequal access to treatment is still shortening the lives of many Americans. David Ansell, who has worked as a doctor in low-income Chicago communities for nearly four decades, focuses on these health care disparities in his new book, The Death Gap.
ThinkProgress interviewed Ansell on some of the ...
How Obamacare is Moving Us Forward – Dr. David Ansell
Chicago Humanities Festival
While not perfect, Dr. David Ansell, former Chief Medical Officer at Rush University Medical Center and author of COUNTY and THE DEATH GAP, argues that the Affordable Care Act is at least moving the United States significantly closer to equality in healthcare, even as it faces repeal and replace efforts in Congress. Here's what he had to say on the matter at CHF's Springfest/17: Stuff. Watch the full video: http://chf.to/2tiHc1q
David Ansell to Appear on Make It Plain
David Ansell will appear on Mark Thompson's Make It Plain on Thursday.
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How Inequality Kills: Doctors, Hospitals and the American Death Gap
David A. Ansell, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Systems Integration, Rush University Medical Center
Michael E. Kelly, MD, Presidential Professor, Rush University Medical Center
Author, County: Life, Death, and Politics in Chicago’s Public Hospital - Hailed as a “landmark book” by the Chicago Tribune
Excerpt from “The Death Gap”
I Sat up, strangely perplexed. For a moment, perhaps, I could not clearly understand how I came there. My terror had fallen from me like a garment. My hat had gone, and my collar had burst away from its fastener. A few minutes before, there had only been three real things before me-the immensity of the night and space and nature, my own feebleness and anguish, and the near approach of death.
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