OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine rates at which racial minority (i.e., non-White) and sexual minority (i.e., lesbian and bisexual-identified) women in the United States receive medical help to become pregnant. Income and insurance coverage discrepancies were hypothesized to mediate differences in receipt of medical help as a function of race and sexual orientation. METHOD Two studies c...

The need for insurance against medical costs was questioned or denied until recently by leading professional associations. Now, this need is accepted; and remaining differences of opinion center mainly on the alternatives of compulsory and voluntary insurance, and on scope, structure, and control of insurance plans. Discussions of national medical-care insurance have been largely concerned with...