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The Washington Post reported this week that along with medical health insurance woes, black women are more likely to suffer from more advanced versions of breast cancer, and have their disease underestimated by doctors.

According to the article, "The formula that doctors use to calculate a woman's risk of breast cancer underestimates the danger for black women most of the time, and especially for those aged 50 and older - the age when they are most likely to benefit from screening tests and protective drugs."

How is this possible? A growing body of evidence suggests that breast cancer tends to be much more aggressive and deadly among black women, which could help explain why they are more likely to die from it, even though fewer of them get it.

At the same time, statistically fewer black women have access to medical health insurance, which means that they don't have access to the doctors and treatments that can help with an early detection of the disease.

And medical health insurance should also provide for yearly checkups and education regarding the prevention and diagnosis of diseases like cancer, which is one more reason why affordable health insurance needs to be available to Americans of any color.