Racial Preferences in the Democrats' Health Care Bill

American Thinker ^ | July 21, 2009 | Allan J. Favish

[AJFavish]

All 1,018 pages of the Democrats' health care bill can be inspected here. The bill includes racial preferences. Under the Democrats' health care bill, if a medical school wants to increase its chances of receiving many different kinds of grants and contracts from the federal government, it should have a demonstrated record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups. This is because the Democrats' health care bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to give preference to the entities that have demonstrated such a record in the awarding of these contracts to medical schools and other institutions.

[lmr]

“The bill includes racial preferences. Under the Democrats’ health care bill, if a medical school wants to increase its chances of receiving many different kinds of grants and contracts from the federal government, it should have a demonstrated record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups.”

That’s great... Not only will this Socialist system contain no incentive, which will drive our best and brightest away from the field, it will guarantee that we have enough affirmative action doctors to make up for it. It will also create a massive bureaucracy of undereducated mini-mussolinis who will invade our privacy and ‘help’ us with healthcare decisons that were traditionally between us and our doctor.

But, I guess it will be ‘free’, except that it’s actually going to end of being a huge transfer of wealth from the Middle Class to Illegal Aliens and Crackheads, all of whom will be perpetual Dem voters.

It’s the Chicago Way and ‘We Won!’, right?!?

[Steve Van Doorn]

What is it with the blatant racism?

[sheik yerbouty]

And that camel he rode in on!

[sheik yerbouty]

it is merely a manifestation of this regime’s melanometric agenda..

[devolve]

[sonic109]

I wonder if one of Obama’s kids needed an operation , he would call for a minority doctor or the BEST doctor,,HUMMMM let ssee..hummmmmmmmm

[1035rep]

Thanks for posting this.

[wardaddy]

Obama and his cabal are at war on whites....and the votes that elected them from minorities were in no small part for that motivation.

[mojitojoe]

Retributions. Ten years ago he said he wanted them, more should have been done and now he wants us to pay for something done generations ago. That guy has identity issues and he is obsessed with the black race and minorities taking over everything. He’s a freak and can KMA.

[xtinct]

"demonstrated record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups"

the word "qualified" is conspicuously missing from this phrase

so, are they going to be dumbing down the medical profession?????

[Go Gordon]

“provide for improving the diversity of the 7 new nurse graduates to reflect changes in the demo- 8 graphics of the patient population;”

Okay, how about this. Blacks can get treated by black doctors only , hispanics can get treated by hispanic doctors only, etc. As for me, I'll take the best damn doctor available, regardless of race.

[bushpilot1]

The Obama agenda is clear...destroy the White man...

[blueplum]

(2) provide for improving the diversity of the 7 new nurse graduates to reflect changes in the demo- 8 graphics of the patient population;

someone anticipating significant changes in demographics any time soon?

[NRA2BFree]

it should have a demonstrated record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups.

That would be the white guys in 2010 after amnesty floods America with 30 million new Democrats.

[tobyhill]

It's reparations in a different way.

[NautiNurse]

are they going to be dumbing down the medical profession?????

When the compensation cuts and caps are completed, it will most certainly be a dumbed down profession.

[savedbygrace]

Clyburn would be one of them, I’m sure.

[Fresh Wind]

This is nothing new for the federal government and hardly surprising. Under the guise of promoting “equal opportunity”, they have been giving hiring and contracting preferences to minorities for years.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

ObamaCare Bill

[Madame Dufarge]

From the Comments section. Welcome to Bizarro World:

Posted by: Jack Kemp Jul 20, 11:43 PM

Fine article, Mr. Favish.

It seems that the Obama Healthcare bill wants to also redefine gender to placate the demands of the homosexual lobby. Male and female will no longer be valid categories in their database.

If the bill passes in its current form, Sec. Kathleen Sebelius will have:

[www.cnsnews.com]

"authority to develop "standards of measuring gender" -- as opposed to using the traditional "male" and "female" categories -- in a database of all who apply or participate in government-run or government-supported health care plans."

Can a person, keeping their own male name, merely demand to be classified as the opposite sex to avoid a past record of medical insurance or other fraud? Who exactly in the Department of Health and Human Services is qualified to determine someone's inner gender? Will they hire Madame Cleo from the Psychic Hotline? Will it be a committee deciding by a majority vote?

A gay female may want to identify themselves as the politically correct term for male, but when given certain medicines or procedures, the medical plan may not consider contraindications due to the birth sex of that person, causing problems with treatment and payment/allowing of certain procedures. A "pregnant man" could exist where someone could insist they ARE a man AND pregnant - and that government bureaucrats are homophobic for saying otherwise.

And we thought the drug induced Lewis Carroll story of Alice in Wonderland was weird. The hookah smoking caterpillar, the "drink me" bottles, the Mad Hatter have got nothing on this one.