Yet another sad and completely unacceptable situation for women of color:

The Kaiser Family Foundation recently released a new and extremely important study that documents the health disparities that exist between white women and women of color. Entitled, "Putting Women's Health Care Disparities on the Map: Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the State Level," the report's findings show that women of color are disproportionately affected by a range of health issues including diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, heart disease, AIDS, and cancer. Women of color also experience high rates of inadequate health care, no health insurance and no prenatal care. National average data shows that 27.9% of women of color don't have any health coverage, compared to 12.8% of their white counterparts.

You can read the entire report by clicking here.

As congress discusses how to overhaul access to health care, one hopes that this report, and others like it, will be brought to their attention. Affordable, good health care has increasingly become a privilege in our nation, and those who do not have health care insurance are suffering because they have no financial means to access health care.

Make sure to keep track of the discussion in congress and be ready to call or write those who are determining the future for our nation.