Race and Beyond: Gearing Up for the Health Care Showdown: "My colleague Lesley Russell makes clear in a recent report released before the legislation was passed by Congress and signed into law by the president that chronically ill Americans from racial and ethnic minority communities are among the beneficiaries of the Affordable Care Act. The law promises them a measure of relief from the higher rates of chronic illnesses from which they suffer at a greater rate than the general public.
“The ultimate goal must be that all Americans, regardless of race or ethnicity, get the quality health care services they need when they need them,” she wrote. “We can ill afford to ignore the high cost in dollars and human life that the nation pays each year that is attributed to health care disparities, especially when much of the burden from chronic illnesses is preventable.”"
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