On the recordMay 8, 2002
Just take hypertension and diabetes. This is something that affects all Americans, but it affects African Americans more so because we have more difficulty accessing care and medication. If we just take hypertension or diabetes, either one, and the complication of end-stage renal disease, and having to then go on dialysis or having a kidney transplant, the cost of providing that benefit and controlling the blood pressure or controlling the diabetes, and at the very least, forestalling that complication, but probably avoiding that complication altogether is really important, we just cannot compare not only the cost of the two, but we cannot compare the quality of life of the two.
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