It turns out the Affordable Care Act may have acted to make care affordable and accessible to black folks.
According to new research, the law has been linked to a reduction in racial disparities in the care of cancer patients and to earlier diagnoses and treatment for ovarian cancer, according to the Washington Post.
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The findings, released Sunday as abstracts at the annual meeting in Chicago of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, which attracts upwards of 40,000 cancer specialists.
According to the Post, researchers saw that black citizens with advanced cancer were 4.8 percentage points less likely to begin treatment for their disease within a month of diagnosis before the ACA’s passage.
Source: Affordable Care Act Reduces Racial Disparities in Cancer Treatment: Report
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