1.0 link 228908 <![CDATA[Addressing America's Health Care Disparities]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clayola-brown/addressing-americas-healt_b_228908.html Successful national health care reform must address access, quality and affordability issues in a comprehensive approach. Providing health care for all must also recognize and address health disparities that exist among minority populations.

According to the Children's Defense Fund, for example, black children in the United States are five times more likely to die from asthma than their white peers. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, more than half of all uninsured Americans are racial minorities.

A study by the Mount...

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