Health Care Stigma Analysis

This article goes over the stigma that poor people receive when they are trying to get healthcare for themselves. The affordable care act made it possible for 12 million low in-come adults to receive healthcare that they otherwise would not have. This study, which was a “mixed-methods study involved 574 low-income adults and included data from an in-person survey and follow-up interviews” (PG 1). Many of these same people who were either on Medicaid or did not have insurance were afraid that they were going to be treated badly because they do not have health care.
One interesting, finding in this article was that race did not have much to do with how good or bad their healthcare that they received was. What was a key factor in this finding