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Black Californians more likely to experience inequities in health care, survey finds

People receive the COVID-19 vaccine at Lincoln Memorial Congregational Church UCC in Leimert Park in 2021..

LOS ANGELES — More than half of Black Californians said there was a time in the last few years when they thought they would have received better health care if they had belonged to a different racial or ethnic group, according to a report released Thursday.

By comparison, 27% of Latinos, 12% of Asian people and 4% of white people responded the same way, the report said.

The report from the California Health Care Foundation, a nonprofit organization focused on health issues in the state, summarized results from a survey that asked more than 1,700

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