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.

[P.O.E.]

Here’s my attempt at throwing the left’s rhetoric right back at them. Just change the IMF to the Obama administration:

“Four hundred years from the plantation whip
To the IMF grip
Aid travels with a bomb
Watch out
Aid travels with a bomb
They rob and exploit you of your own
Then send it back as a foreign loan
Interest is on it, regulations too
They will also
Decide your policy
For you.”

-”Aid” by Rasta Dub poet Jean Breeze

[Hoodat]

Once again, Democrats show their utter contempt for Amendment XIV.

[KansasGirl]

A large road construction project, financed by the “stimulus” bill, was awarded to the largest road construction country in this area. A friend of my husband (a union democrat) who works for that company says a lot of his fellow employees are furious because the contract stipulates that preferences must be made in favor of minorities in hiring workers for the job. He said all workers hired will be minorities.

[Jim Noble]

This bill has been written, in one form or another, for twenty years.

[Jim Noble]

who is responsible for the racial preferences in this bill. I want names

Oh, please.

The regimen of preferences for women and minorities in Federal grants and contracts has been in place for 30+ years.

There are female "professors" whose entire CAREERS have been serving as sham Principal Investigators on NIH grants which would have been unfundable without a female PI.

A lot of us still don't understand the game. The reason they could produce a 1000 page bill in two weeks is that most of it has existed on the word processors of the Left for at least the last 20 years, in some cases the last 40 years.

The hospital and doctor destruction bill contains every commie fantasy about medicine, ever.

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[alancarp]

AMENDMENT XIV
Passed by Congress June 13, 1866. Ratified July 9, 1868.

Section 1.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

And, oh by the way, "ANY PERSON" also means the elderly -- under the 14th amendment, you CANNOT make choices amongst groups or individuals about who would receive - or be denied - health care. ALL must be treated equally.

So not only is this provision blantantly unconstitutional, it would also be unconstitutional to have a separate health plan for congress and the President.

[2ndClassCitizen]

It would be nice to have a listing on liine of all those who support and enforce racial preferences.

[unixfox]

Well surprise surprise! The prez and the democRATS show their RACISM!

Imagine that.

[raybbr]

Perhaps somebody in what is left of this country's news media can find out who is responsible for the racial preferences in this bill. I want names.

Seriously? Just look at anyone of the them with a 'd' next to their name. It could have been anyone of them.

[whatshotandwhatsnot]

What happened to the vaunted ‘post racial’ era?

Why the emphasis on skin color and not competency?

Would someone rather see a barely educated physician of the same race than a superior one of another race?

This should really level the playing field for our medical professionals. Maybe we can just use shamans, medicine men and hedge witches of a variety of colors so no one’s feelings get hurt and we can remain oh so politically correct.

[raybbr]

(1) PROGRAM EVALUATIONS.—An entity that
20 receives a grant under this section shall annually
21 evaluate, and submit to the Secretary a report on,
22 the activities carried out under the grant and the
23 outcomes of such activities. Such outcomes may in24
clude—
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1 (A) an increased number of incumbent
2 workers entering an accredited school of nurs3
ing and in the pipeline for nursing programs;
4 (B) an increasing number of graduating
5 nurses and improved nurse graduation and li6
censure rates;
7 (C) improved nurse retention;
8 (D) an increase in the number of staff
9 nurses at the health care facility involved;
10 (E) an increase in the number of nurses
11 with advanced degrees in nursing;
12 (F) an increase in the number of nurse
13 faculty;
14 (G) improved measures of patient quality
15 (which may include staffing ratios of nurses,
16 patient satisfaction rates, patient safety meas17
ures); and
18 (H) an increase in the diversity of new
19 nurse graduates relative to the patient popu20
lation.

They's gonna has to prove they's hirin' minorities.

[Kozak]

Every kid who applies to any kind of medical occupation should check the “Native American” and “Hispanic Surnamed” box. Let THEM figure it out.

[Notwithstanding]

An amendment should be introduced that mandates

that any member of congress who votes for this provision
and any Prez0dent who signs it
as well all their dependent family members

must receive all medical treatment exclusively from affirmative action doctors.

[Notwithstanding]

Senator Fat Teddy could garner support for this provision if he convinces the Kennedy Klan to recieve all medical treatment exclusively from affirmative action doctors.

Fat chance.

[MrB]

EVERY policy that this admin has pushed through in the past 6 months has been de facto reparations.
Just examine “who’s gettin’ and who’s payin’”.

[SJackson]

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

In most regions that would mean incentivizing the training of whites, particularly white males, who are underrepresented relative to patients in the nursing population.

[George from New England]

We have personally seen racial preference in foster home placement. White family, white kids, white grandparents, kids placed in black mother-only foster home with two other black kids in lieu of white family grandparents. Follow the process: black case worker and black judge.

What is up is down, stop me please.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

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

...in which case they would be overrepresented underrepresented minority groups.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Most of the patients I cared for did not care I was white. They cared that I was good.