The U.S. health care system costs 2.7 trillion dollars making it one of the most expensive industries in the U.S. and yet it is the least efficient health care system among all the health care systems of the developed countries in the world.

The U.S. health care system is controlled totally by the health insurance companies.

The HMOs under the control of the men, women and their share holders who run them, devise myriad of devices and high tech soft ware to maximize their profit margins at the expense of Physicians, Dentists, PAs, NPs, Hospitals, Nursing Homes, Pharmacies, and other health care related businesses.

The CEOs who run the HMOs pay themselves exorbitant amount of money and other benefits, while other people who provide health care and other services for patients get the crump off the table literally.

With the help of highly paid lobbyists in Washington DC and state legislatures across the country, these CEOs are guaranteed to remain in control of the health care system in the U.S. by making political contributions to politicians to pass laws in favor of their HMOs' business interests.

Cut in the web of the health care money making skims by the HMOs are Blacks and other minorities who have no one to fight for their health care interests. The price they pay is the receipt of poor health care or no health care at all in many instances.

This book is written to describe some of the common medical problems that afflict black people and to bring to light the differences in the diseases that are more common in African Americans and different tests and treatments that must be employed to diagnose and treat these medical conditions.

There are many differences in the genetic and physiology of many major diseases that make black people sick. Unless physicians understand these differences and consider them in evaluating black patients, they are likely to fail in arriving at the correct diagnoses. Without proper diagnoses, effective treatments cannot be provided.

The medical community by and large remains in the dark as it relates to these issues and continues to evaluate and treat black patients the same way they treat white patients. A classic example is treating black patients with Beta-blockers for hypertension or Calcium channel blockers and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor with no thiazide diuretics.

It is time for racial discrimination of medical treatments in medicine is stopped. Physicians ought to take it upon themselves to become familiar with the cultures of their minority patients and culturally sensitized themselves to these patients in order so that they can provide better medical care for them.

Physicians simply cannot provide quality care for patients against whom they discriminate racially and whose cultures they frown upon and consider racially inferior to theirs. This is a formula for the delivery of bad medical care.

In addition, the book shows the many medical disparities that exist between the different medical treatments that are given to African Americans compared to whites in the U.S. Many African Americans in the U.S., the richest, most generous, and greatest country on the planet, do not have health insurance. 19% African Americans, 30% Hispanics, and 9.9 whites have no health insurance. Source: CDC

Altogether, forty-six million individuals in the U.S. live in poverty and twenty million children go to bed hungry every night. A large percentage of the children who go to bed hungry are black and other ethnic minorities.

Fourteen million Americans are unemployed. In December 2013, the unemployment was 7.0%, 14% African Americans were unemployed and 6.6.0% whites were unemployed, according to the U.S. Labor Statistics.

Fifty seven million people are getting food stamps to survive but, 5 billion dollars are being cutted from the food stamps program. 45 trillion dollars of the U.S. Wealth are the hands of the top 2% of the population. Many of those who own the 45 trillion dollars refuse to pay their fair share in taxes to help the poor and the middle class.

Many African Americans in the U.S. lack the necessities of life such as housings, employments, and proper clothing's, and foods to eat. Without any doubt, these things affect their health negatively.

As more people find themselves joining the ranks of the poor, the...