Today, in the United States, nearly 80 percent of black Americans live within 30 miles of a coal plant, breathing in toxic chemicals and living with health consequences of our deference to fossil fuels.
Kennedy highlights health risks faced by black Americans near coal plants.
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So one of the things that the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Treatment Act, along with subsequent parity laws, did was to ensure that plans provide information on how they are making mental and behavioral health parity decisions.
When you talk about these infection rates, they are also a reflection of access to testing that are in and of itself subject to these disparities and structural inequities that we have been talking about today.
Massachusetts has been hit extremely hard by this virus. We have had over 100,000 people infected and over 7,500 deaths.
Just days ago, President Trump stood up before the American public and told us that he asked his administration to slow the tests down...
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