African Americans commonly referred to as Black Americans are an ethnic group that
trace its origin from enslaved black people. The number of African Americans is approximately
48.8 million which represents 14.6% of the United States population (Vespa & Medina, 2018).
Africa American population is the second least healthy ethnic group after Latinos in the United
States of America. According to a report by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Sommers et al.,
2017), the major cause of disparities in the American healthcare system is racial discrimination
and ethnicity. Sommers et al (2017) observes that race and ethnicity are the leading determinant
of the nature and quality of treatment. The disparity in the American healthcare system has
contributed to the high mortality and illness rate among African Americans. Although the past
efforts to reduce the high rate of disparities in the American health system have over the years
proved futile, there is urgency to stop the prejudice though all possible means. This paper will
argue that the prevalent disparity in the American healthcare system pose challenges to African
Americans, thus it is time to implement a non-discriminatory system. Disparity in USA Healthcare System

The Africans Americans health uninsured number of people is higher than white
Americans and Asian Americans combined. Health cover on its own cannot guarantee good
health outcomes but it is a necessity. Although the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was aimed at
reducing the rate of uninsured people in the United States population, most of African Americans
did not obtain the cover. African Americans living in 25 out of the 28 States that had adopted the
expansion were not yet covered. Donald Trump’s administration has proposed two bills that
would see 23 million people lose their health covers most of whom are African Americans. One
of the bills repeals the medical expansion program for the purpose of imposing a per capita cap
on the Medicaid (Ku et al., 2017).

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