Discovered Truth: A Health Care Journey discusses black barriers to healthcare due to racism, distrust, and slavery and how that effects racial health disparities now.

Historically the African American community has been under and uninsured. The historic road to health insurance is rooted in isolation but changes in society and the Affordable Care Act itself carries some surprises for consideration and action. Produced with MNSure and the Stairstep Initative.

00:00 Discovered Truth: A Health Care Journey
00:32 Black health disparities are massive
04:45 African Americans have been abused by the health care system since slavery
06:15 The Slave Health Deficit: medical and health sciences perpetuated racism and justified slavery
07:17 Black cooperative power and mutual aid in the church and beyond
11:22 Black-owned insurance companies around the country
12:50 Black economic cooperative power in the Black community
17:00 US Presidents pushed for universal healthcare for over 99 years
18:11 MNSure and the online marketplaces for healthcare

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