The Day - Cancer deaths still follow racial lines | News from southeastern Connecticut: ""But we're still seeing a wide range of disparities in almost every area," said Elizabeth Krause of the Connecticut Health Foundation, which has invested almost $15 million in health equity since 1999. "We've really got to focus our efforts on advancing solutions."
The motivation is more than altruistic. It's financial.
When cancer patients don't have health coverage, don't trust physicians or won't confront their own vulnerability, their diagnosis is late and treatment is expensive. Those delays added $230 billion to U.S. medical costs between 2003 and 2006, according to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. So the payoff for improving care - starting with prevention - could be enormous."
The motivation is more than altruistic. It's financial.
When cancer patients don't have health coverage, don't trust physicians or won't confront their own vulnerability, their diagnosis is late and treatment is expensive. Those delays added $230 billion to U.S. medical costs between 2003 and 2006, according to the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. So the payoff for improving care - starting with prevention - could be enormous."
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