Rationing by Race

We thank the editor and four anonymous referees for their extremely thoughtful comments. We gratefully acknowledge feedback from seminar participants at the NBER Summer Institute, NBER Conference on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, the Health Economics Workshop at NYU Stern School of Business, AEA Annual Meeting, Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, Harvard University (Kennedy), University of Pennsylvania, Stanford University, Duke University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Texas at Austin, and University of Virginia. For helpful comments and suggestions, we thank David Asch, Bocar Ba, Joseph Benitez, Bernard Black, Jacob Bor, Kate Bundorf, Kitt Carpenter, Ben Castleman, David Chan, Amitabh Chandra, Paula Chatterjee, David Cutler, Janet Currie, Michael Darden, Kit Delgado, Matthew Eisenberg, Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert, Jose Fernandes, Ryan Greyson, Ezra Golberstein, Jevay Grooms, Scott Halpern, Noah Hammarlund, Kandice Kapinos, Mireille Jacobson, Hedwig Lee, Jeff Linder, Elizabeth Linos, Judith Long, Dan Ly, Amol Navathe, Ziad Obermeyer, Maya Rossin-Slater, Rosalie Pacula, Carol Propper, Seth Richards-Shubik, Christopher Ruhm, Hannes Schwandt, Peter Schwardmann, Hummy Song, Zirui Song, Sebastian Tello-Trillo, Rachel Werner, Morgan Williams, Jr., Michelle White, Derek Wu, and Jacob Zureich. We thank Ashvin Gandhi for the title of this paper. This paper substantially updates a previous version, titled “Capacity strain and racial disparities in mortality.” The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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