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We've heard about cancer patients and the negative ramifications they face when their disease is diagnosed too late, but now it seems that those who suffer from kidney disease, and don't have access to affordable health insurance, are also suffering dire circumstances.

While the article at MSN Health is about racial disparities and medicine, and doesn't mention affordable health insurance but in passing, it's still obvious why it is that those who come from lower economic platforms are suffering more at the hands of kidney disease.

According to the article, black and Hispanic kidney disease patients are more likely than white patients to develop kidney failure requiring dialysis or transplant.

The list of factors that influence the progression of the disease on non-white populations included "genetic incompatibility; wait-list registration practices; donor kidney acceptance practices; patient interest in transplantation; attitudes and beliefs about organ donation; and differences in risk factors for kidney disease progression after transplantation."

But disparities in health care are a top concern too, proving once again that by not offering affordable health insurance to everyone in this country, significant populations suffer unnecessary or preventable medical problems.

One of the authors who presented the study in question responded to its release by saying that health providers and organizations need to be aware of these disparities, but the nation's health care policies as a whole must be changed too.

And we couldn't agree more.