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Health equality should include disability

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You’d think that people with multiple sclerosis or another disability would have easy access to healthcare services. That’s not always so. A small study in the journal Health Affairs that I wrote about last year said many physicians “expressed explicit bias toward people with disabilities and described strategies for discharging them from their practices.” Now, at the urging of people with disabilities and others, the U.S. National Institutes of Health has…Continue Reading