Table 1.

Representative Discrimination Quotes by Ethnic Group

Group	Perceived Discrimination	Equivocal	No Perceived Discrimination
English-speaking Latinas	Maybe because I'm Mexican…. Maybe if I was a White I'd be treated better.	[Do Mexican Americans have the same quality of care as Whites?] Well, no. And I'm not sure exactly why. I'm not sure if it's because they don't know the resources, or it's because they're shy about it, or the insurance.	I think there are avenues and ways to get care—I don't think anybody's ever turned away. This country is fantastic at providing for the immigrants.
African American	I do know that racism exists, but I don't have a way to prove it to you…. I don't see that we need to go to people who treat us poorly.	I bet most of the time it's money. I'm not saying that it's race oriented, or that it's gender oriented; there are more Black peoples that are affected by that.	The minorities that come in there, I would say, do get the same treatment.
Spanish-speaking Latinas	Everywhere in the news, everywhere you hear that because you're Hispanic, you have no right to medical services.	Friends tell me that at the other hospitals they don't have to wait as long as here, that it's faster, and that there's a lot of White people that go, and very few Hispanics. So I realize that, well, yes, there's a disparity with people, right? But I haven't had that treatment.	No, ethnicity and race don't matter to me, what matters is that they're a good doctor and that they're helping me.