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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Racially Discriminatory Provisions in Healthcare Bill

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/11/panel-sees-race-bias-in-health-care-bill/?feat=home_cube_position1
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/08/racism_in_health_care_bill_see.html
http://www.usccr.gov/correspd/LetterPresidentSenatorsHealthCare12-11-09.pdf

Now it sees the House health care bill having provisions that are racially discriminatory.
How? By making overt a preference to award billions of taxpayer dollars and preferential treatment to minority students for scholarships, and favoring medical schools that have a record of sending graduates to areas with inadequate health care services.


"These programs are unlikely to reduce health care disparities among racial and ethic groups," according to the draft letter obtained by The Washington Times. "A growing body of evidence indicates that increasing access to high-quality physicians - whatever their racial or ethnic ancestry - is the best way to mitigate such disparities."

"No matter how well-intentioned, utilizing racial preferences with the hope of alleviating health care disparities is inadvisable both as a matter of policy and as a matter of law."

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