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Besides the I Have a Dream Speech, one of the most quoted phrases of Dr. Martin Luther King involved our health care system. He despised the inequities involved in treating the health of those in the Black community. Years later, Barack Obama continues to carry that torch, expanding is fight to include all Americans. |
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"Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." |
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“I think it should be a right for every American. In a country as wealthy as ours, for us to have people who are going bankrupt because they can’t pay their medical bills--for my mother to die of cancer at the age of 53 and have to spend the last months of her life in the hospital room arguing with insurance companies because they’re saying that this may be a pre-existing condition and they don’t have to pay her treatment, there’s something fundamentally wrong about that.”
Source: 2008 second presidential debate against John McCain Oct 7, 2008 |
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Dr. Lovell Jones
Director, Center for Research on Minority Health
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
The economic health of this nation is dependent on its physical and mental well-being while America still looks at health on a sliding scale with Blacks at the bottom according to this prominent minority health leader.
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