Word: health
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study, one of many recent efforts to investigate the racial health care gap, found that white people with kidney failure were about 4 percent more likely to want a transplant than are black people. But black people were more than 20 percent less likely to be referred for evaluation and placement on a transplant wait-list...
White doctors are more able to communicate with patients who are "closer to them culturally," said Dr. John Z. Ayanian, assistant professor of medicine and health care policy...
...Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) officials announced last week that they will step up enforcement of existing rules against racial bias in kidney transplants...
HCFA, the federal agency that runs Medicare, Medicaid and various children's health programs, covers most dialysis and transplant costs for patients of all ages who lack private insurance...
...communications or whatever. The commercials aren't all lies, at least, not so far - you can use this place to get someplace else. It's not a last resort. Yes, it's for trailer trash and teenage urban desperadoes, out of options and desperate for a job and some health insurance for families they'd started way too early. But it's also for 18-year-old troublemakers from Houston looking for a head start on a career as a chef, and for 20-year-old Peace Corps types looking for a way into a traveling brand of journalism...