Racial health disparities cost $229 billion from 2003-2006
``Racial health disparities cost the United States $229 billion between 2003 and 2006 -- money that could help cover an overhaul of the nation's health care system, according to a new report by Johns Hopkins and University of Maryland researchers,'' The Baltimore Sun reports.
The cost of treating heart disease and stroke in the United States is expected to triple in the next 20 years, to $818 billion.