SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED: PUTTING AN END TO SEPARATE AND UNEQUAL HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES 50 YEARS AFTER THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964.

HEALTH of African Americans; MEDICAL care laws; MEDICAL care of African Americans; HEALTH care reform; AFRICAN American civil rights; PATIENT Protection & Affordable Care Act

The article looks at the history of the U.S. health care system which has been separate and unequal since the Civil War because of racial bias. Topics discussed include the U.S Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; impact of the institutional racial bias on African Americans' health status and access to quality health care; and need to end the racial bias within the U.S. health care system.