Medical Racism – Preferential Treatments for Blacks over Whites – is Here

American Thinker ^ | 26 Apr, 2021 | Peter Barry Chowka

[MtnClimber]

Race has always been used by the left and the Democrats to divide us. As we’ve seen all too clearly in recent weeks, this strategy has now achieved critical mass – and it’s moved into health care, the largest sector of the economy and one with critical influence on people’s lives -- and even survival.

I’ve been reporting on American medical care since the 1970s. It’s an area rife with politics but I never thought that I’d live to see anything like this.

In early April, I became aware of a shocking new example of overt racism that proposes to remake health care on the basis of Critical Race Theory. On April 10, 2021, the prestigious medical journal The Lancet – one of the most prominent scientific journals in the world – published an article titled “Racism is the public health crisis.” You read it right: The most important public health crisis.

This is just the latest article on this absurd claim published recently by this and other leading medical journals (including the equally prestigious New England Journal of Medicine), both here and abroad. (The Lancet is published in the UK.)

SNIP

Theory into practice

Less than two weeks ago, it was reported that this policy of giving preferential medical treatment to individuals with the preferred racial or ethnic background – Blacks and “Latinx” patients – over Whites is going into practice, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. That institution, affiliated with the Harvard University Medical School, is considered one of the best teaching hospitals in the country. It’s part of Mass General Brigham, a network that operates a dozen hospitals in Massachusetts. Its “sweeping system-wide approach outlining broad social justice and equity goals and strategies” was announced last November right after the election.

[MtnClimber]

[ClearCase_guy]

Blacks are the most privileged people in America.

[PGalt]

Divide/deceive...control/kill. Kill/kill/kill.

[Krosan]

I suspect it is illegal and if someone in Boston were to sue they’d win.

[LastDayz]

Divide and conquer. So much for the Hippocratic Oath.

[JeanLM]

BlackLivesMatterMore=BLMM

[I want the USA back]

Already being done, and it’s not being stopped. It’s illegal, wrong, and unconstitutional. The government knows about it and isn’t arresting those involved - so it’s here to stay, and will expand.

Get used to this kind of thing, and to reparations.

I knew they want to eliminate Whitey, after taking all his money.

[Pontiac]

Less than two weeks ago, it was reported that this policy of giving preferential medical treatment to individuals with the preferred racial or ethnic background – Blacks and “Latinx” patients – over Whites is going into practice, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.

So, does this mean that some South American illegal immigrant is going to be treated for heart disease before some member of the Saudi royal family that paid for a new wing on the hospital?

[Pontiac]

It’s illegal, wrong, and unconstitutional.

It is morally wrong, it may be illegal, but I can’t think of any way in which it is unconstitutional unless the hospital is wholly owned by government.

[dsrtsage]

Will they still be hardest hit?

[BobL]

I guess that evens the score for me, as I’ve rejected EEOC doctors based on just that.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[aimhigh]

Blacks have poorer medical outcomes than whites in most areas. The reason is because 50% of blacks are obese.

[blam]

"Blacks have poorer medical outcomes than whites in most areas. The reason is because 50% of blacks are obese.

You can find that information here.

[Vaduz]

It’s why the race card keeps it going media approved.