There was a 12.4-point difference in the five-year survival rate between white American women and black American women from 1999 to 2005 (90.3% for whites and 77.9% for blacks. http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/breast.html

What does THAT say about the American health insurance model?

Some opponents of reform might be quick to point out that this is a failure of our already-existing public options of Medicaid and Medicare, as they might assume proportionally more black women are enrolled in a government-funded option than white women.

However, it seems that a genuine LACK of health insurance - and possibly lack of coverage for preventive care and screenings among existing public options - may be more the culprit; and it seems to affect everyone regardless of race or education level.

Women without health insurance across all racial and educational levels, are half as likely to receive timely mammograms, according to a report conducted by the American Cancer Society and published in the society's peer-reviewed journal "CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians." This means diagnosis at later, less treatable stages for many women.
www.huliq.com/.../insurance-status-linked-cancer-outcomes

The article in the above link points out that the disparity between five-year survival rates of uninsured and insured American white women is higher than the disparity between American whites and blacks (13 points vs 12.4). And the disparity is even greater (16 points vs 12.4) between insured and uninsured American black women.

To be clear, the study looked at uninsured and privately (or commercially) insured women.

So please, when you see ads like those put out by the Independent Women's Forum, exercise your own independence to look at the real facts behind the scare tactics.