Patrick McDonald Source 2

Does the Affordable Care Act have an impact on minorities with cancer?

Mahal, Brandon A., et al. "Getting Back To Equal: The Influence Of Insurance Status On Racial Disparities In The Treatment Of African American Men With High-Risk Prostate Cancer." Urologic Oncology 32.8 (2014): 1285-1291. Academic Search Complete. Web. 3 Mar. 2015.

This article talks about African American men with prostate cancer and how the Affordable Care Act can help them, It states that there will be roughly 233,000 prostate cancer diagnoses and 246,000 deaths from prostate cancer in 2014. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer found in men behind skin cancer. With that, it talks about how African American men are more than twice the risk of prostate cancer related deaths than white men. This is mostly due to how much more African Americans do not have healthcare. They are either not diagnosed of treated because they are uninsured. They did a study that proves that case. With the ACA, more people are will have access to healthcare and will be able to afford the treatment. With such a greater amount of African American men dying from prostate cancer related deaths compared to white men, it makes sense that by giving people more opportunities to get insurance that there will be less African American deaths related to prostate cancer because they will have the access to the proper care that they could not get before.

I thought it would be useful to see what the ACA was useful with for people who could not afford healthcare rather than be ineligible like the last article. I was surprised by how many more African Americans are at risk of prostate cancer deaths than white males because they do not have the coverage. I am starting to lean more to the pro ACA side. I have only researched the benefits of it though. Also,  I agree with the source that the ACA can help these individuals diagnose and treat prostate cancer because they will have more affordable coverage. I think the source is valid because it has years of research to back it. The source did answer my question in that it does help minorities with cancer.

This source does not really respond to my last source. Rather, it starts another argument that goes with my last one. It is a positive article for the ACA. They both believe the ACA will help out what they are writing about, minorities and children with cancer and survivors.

This source leads me to ask if the ACA hurts people with cancer in any way. I have only read positives, so I need to find a counterargument soon. I want to see if there is a negative to the act at all. I plan on looking at more scholarly sources to find more information on it. I also want to know more on the act after it was implemented because both of these two texts were written before the act was put into place.