An overview: Eliminating racial, ethnic, and SES disparities in health care

The papers featured in this issue of the Health Care Financing Review were presented at "Eliminating Racial, Ethnic, and SES Disparities in Health Car e: A Research Agenda for the New Millennium." This conference was held on O ctober 15, 1999, in the Washington, DC., area and was co-sponsored by the H ealth Care Financing Administration (HCFA), the Agency for Healthcare Resea rch and Quality (AHRQ) formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Resea rch), and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The conference was underta ken in response to the challenge posed by President Clinton's national goal of eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in six health domains by the year 2010.