Abstract
The Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) publishes the annual National Health Disparities Report (NHDR), which provides a comprehensive review of data obtained from many distinct sources regarding healthcare disparities among members of racial and ethnic minorities versus non-Hispanic whites (NHWs). The 2006 NHDR found that Hispanics had worse access to care than non-Hispanic whites in 83 percent of core measures examined (AHRQ 2006b). In addition, while disparities have been steadily improving for blacks and Asians, most of the disparities in access to care were getting worse for Hispanics. Perhaps no measure of access to care is as