https://macropaperwarehouse.com/authors/manasvini-singh/Manasvini SinghHugo -- gohugo.ioen-ushttps://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/rationing-by-race/https://macropaperwarehouse.com/papers/rationing-by-race/<p>Singh and Venkataramani ask whether resource scarcity causes discriminatory rationing of health care by patient race, with patient death as the starkest possible outcome of biased allocation decisions. They examine 107,221 inpatient admissions from 2015 to 2018 at two large urban academic teaching hospitals (each with over 500 beds) in a Southeastern U.S. city with a sizable Black population. Black patients accounted for 60% of admissions, were on average younger (52 vs. 59 years), more likely to be female (65% vs. 50%), and had similar comorbidity burdens and baseline in-hospital death rates (approximately 2% for both groups), but waited over two hours longer on average for an inpatient bed and were 27% less likely to be admitted to the ICU.</p>