about where we're going to live and eat. >> ifill: health officials say health navigators like carol dickens be key to closing the racial gap. dickens whose position is funded by the susan g. komen foundation work hard to help people who get lost in the healthcare system. >> i'm trying to get a person from a to b to c to d. i'm not going to leave you till we know what has to be done for you. so you need to go in early and i need to stay with you. >> we need to replicate five, ten, twenty times. we need more navigators in the community, if only to provide another hand to hold, a trusted advisor through the process to build up that confidence in the patient's mind that this is something they can do. >> doctors say it's still unclear what impact the affordable care act will have on improving cancer survival rates for black women. in the meantime, methodist healthcare and the west clinic say they are committed to finding ways to cover all costs. >> there's no medical jargon, no biopsy required. we bring them in and get them screened. if they have an abnormal screening, we get them biopsied. if t