Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  (CNN) He ahiahi mahana i Miami, ā, kua tae mai a Emanuel Vega, 35 tau, ki te Baptist Health Primary Care mō tētahi whakamātautau ā-tinana. Ka whakapakia e Tākuta Mark Caruso tōna ringaringa me te ataata pōwhiri. Ko Vega, he tangata pakari, he kakau pango matotoru, he pai te āhua, engari i haere mai ia ki te tākuta i tēnei rā nā te mea i whakaaro tōna wāhine me haere ia -- i whakarite anō hoki ia i te wā. He koreutu ki a ia i raro i tana kaupapa here inihua me te kore utu, i te mea ko te nuinga o te tiaki ārai kei raro i te Ture Awhina Utu. Ko Vega tētahi o ngā Amerikana neke atu i te 44 miriona e whai wāhi ana ki tētahi tikanga hauora: te toro atu ki te tākuta mō tētahi whakamātautau tinana ā-tau. Engari he iti noa iho nga taunakitanga e whai hua ana aua haerenga ki nga pakeke hauora. E whakarongo ana a Caruso ki te ngakau me ngā puku o Vega, e tirotiro ana i tōna pēhi i roto i ōna waewae, ā, e hopu ana i ngā kōpuku lymph. Ka ui atu hoki ia ki a Vega mō tana hōtaka whakangungu me te moe, ā, ka tono hoki ia kia whakamātauria te toto me te umu. I te mea ka tirohia nga mea katoa, ka tono a Caruso ki a Vega kia hoki mai mo tetahi atu whakamatautau i roto i te tau. E mea ana a Vega e tino whakaae ana ia. He wheako pai tēnei mō te tākuta me te tūroro, ā, ehara ko rātou anake; e 92 ōrau o ngā Amerikana e kī ana he mea nui kia haere ki tētahi whakamātautau ā-tinana ā-tau, e ai ki tētahi rangahau a Kaiser Family Foundation (he hōtaka motuhake a KHN i te kaupapa). A ko te 62 ōrau o te hunga i uiuia i mea e haere ana ratou ki te tākuta ia tau mō te whakamātautau. Engari ehara i te mea ko te taunakitanga kei to ratou taha. "Ka tohe ahau kia anga whakamua tatou ki te whakakore i te whakamātautau hauora ā-tau", e ai ki a Tākuta Ateev Mehrotra, he tākuta tiaki tuatahi, he kaiwhakaako hoki mo te kaupapa here hauora i te Kura Hauora o Harvard. E mea ana a Mehrotra me haere anake ngā tūroro ki te tākuta mēnā he raruraru, mēnā rānei kua tae ki te wā ki te whai i tētahi whakamātautau ārai nui pēnei i te colonoscopy. E mōhio ana ia kei te whakahē te whakaaro o te iwi whānui i tēnei tirohanga. "Ka mea ahau, hei taote, kaore au e tautoko mo te tirotiro hauora a-tau, ka rite ki taku whakaeke i nga whaea me te keke aporo", e kii ana a Mehrotra. "He mea tika, he mea tika, ā, [he] mea kua noho hei wāhanga o te rongoā...
92 ōrau o ngā Amerikana e mea ana he mea nui kia whiwhi i tētahi whakamātautau ā-tinana ā-tau mai i te upoko ki te waewae. Kāore ngā whakamātautau ā-rōpū e hoki ana ki ngā tau 1980 e tautoko ana i taua whakapono.