Bill Addressing Racial Disparities in Health Care Introduced

Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Joe Lieberman (D-Conn.) last week introduced a bill (S 1929) http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.1929: called FairCare, which is intended to address deficiencies in health care for racial and ethnic minorities. The bill comes in response to a study published Oct. 25 that found heart attack death rates are higher in hospitals that treat mostly black patients.