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Profound and persistent racial differences in health care in the US directly conflict with the egalitarian principles that society is supposedly built on. Despite this, the profession lacks adequate evidence and data on how to reduce these inequalities and the effectiveness of policies already in place.

The power dynamics present in health-care are multi-dimensional. Focusing on discrimination in relation to the quality of healthcare (rather than equity in access) the impact is to diminish the power that minorities have over their treatment. A stark example of this is that 'Black Americans are systematically underrated for pain relative to White Americans' Policies are needed to redress this power imbalance between minority and non-minority patients.

A public advisory body called The National committee of Vital Health and Statistics suggests that in order to address racial bias in healthcare there needs to be consistent reporting of data on medical encounters. It is argued that this will enable researchers to spot systematic patterns in discrimination.