Created 10/2/08
Anyone who has had a health care provider refuse treatment to him/her or a loved one based on lack of insurance, the wrong type of insurance, preexisting condition(s), indigence or lack of indigence, knows the frustration we in the United States often feel when we seek health care. Even when we have money and insurance,… (more) we never seem to have enough money and insurance to meet the medical necessities of ourselves and our loved ones.
Our nation spends twice as much on health care as many other industrialized countries that have national health care, and yet our outcomes are not better and many of us receive no health care at all. The infant mortality rate among Blacks in parts the American south (17%) is almost three times as high as the infant mortality rate in Cuba (6%). It's times to take action.
Afrosphere bloggers are in the forefront, informing and mobilizing the public on behalf of health care for all. (less)
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