By Richard Horgan Los Angeles (Knewz) — Some of the burden of healthcare costs for Americans has nothing to do with their own condition. Rather, it comes from the overall stress and expense on the system applied by “health inequities.” Deloitte recently examined a number of high-costs diseases to determine the proportion of healthcare system costs that can be attributed to these so-called inequities. For example, in the case of diabetes, Black adults are 60 percent more likely than white adults to be diagnosed with the disease. They are also two to three times more likely to have complications…
