The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

Satcher supports a Medicare-for-all style single payer health plan in which insurance companies would be eliminated and the government would pay health care costs directly to doctors hospitals and other providers through the tax system. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians the American College of Preventive Medicine and the American College of Physicians and is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine. S.

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