BATON ROUGE - U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy is under fire after he suggested Louisiana s high maternal mortality rate is not as bad if you factored out its larger Black population compared to other states.
The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bill to help fund the study of health disparities among minority communities, Sen. Bill Cassidy, MD announced Monday, March 15.
La., Hawaii senators introduce bill to increase funding for schools performing research into minority health disparities Left to right: Senators Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) (Source: U.S. Senate) By Rachael Thomas | February 25, 2021 at 10:21 AM CST - Updated March 7 at 3:39 PM
WASHINGTON (KSLA) - Two U.S. senators, one from Louisiana and one from Hawaii, have introduced a bill to the Senate that would increase investments in schools performing research into minority health disparities.
Senators Bill Cassidy, MD (R-La.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) are behind the bill, which is called the John Lewis National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Endowment Revitalization Act. The Senate bill was introduced Feb. 12.