Blacks live longer than whites when given the same healthcare.
Researchers tracked 3.1million people in the Veterans Affairs system.
They identified 547,000 blacks and 2.5 million whites with normal kidney tests.
These patients were tracked for 8 years and the mortality rates were a huge shock!
of the 638,000 that died, only 22.5 per thousand were black and 31.9 per thousand were white.
Black men and women were also found to be 37% less likely to develop heart disease, the leading cause of death in the United States.
Basically, with equal care, blacks were found to live longer!
Now, in the current system, with the disparities that affect the black population, blacks have a 42% higher mortality than whites!
Owing to racism in the healthcare system and that only 3% of physicians are black, these kinds of studies are often downplayed or outright ignored!
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