Posted on 10/26/2009 3:08:52 PM PDT by artichokegrower
As the public debate over health care reform continues, many African-Americans are concerned that the minority of voices loudly denouncing a public option might sideline the real reform their community desperately needs.
From the cradle to the grave, African-Americans have poorer health outcomes: African-American infant mortality is more than double that of whites; African-American women make up 70 percent of new HIV/AIDS infections; three times as many black Americans die from diabetes as white Americans; and the life expectancy for whites is 78 years, compared with 73 years for all African-Americans and less than 70 years for African-American males.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Let’s see. The ones over 65 have Medicare. The poor with children have Medicaid. The ones incarcerated have free health care. The ones in the military have coverage. The ones working at any business over 50 employees have coverage if they choose to and the ones who work for local, state, and federal governments have coverage. The ones working for ACORN have coverage. Have I left anyone out?
“Potato chips and Pepsi.” Awesome.
I'd love to help, but any money that could have gone toward reparations was taken in income taxes. Anything remaining was spent on ammunition.
“Shortly after the end of the Civil War on Jan. 16, 1865, Union Gen. William T. Sherman issued Special Field Order 15, which promised “forty acres and a mule” to freed slaves”
Ok we will give you the same health care that was available in 1865.
I vote for this!!!
And then we will be expected to cook.
LOL, you’re just mean!!! Love it...
...in a New Yawk Minute? ;-)
All that government health care results in poor health outcomes?
And they want more government health care?
How can anything be a ‘right’ that requires someone else
to provide that right?
Until they realize that “their community” is America they aren’t worth a gob of warm spit in my book.
Many of the health problems blacks have can be directly contributed to the high fat highly processed diets they refuse to give up. You can’t eat everything fried in animal fat and expect to be healthy!
I’m all for that. We brought them over here against thier will. According to them, anyway, we have oppressed them all this time. They can’t have the kind of government they want because of whitey. All of colonial Africa has been turned back over to them. There, they are the rulers. Why would they not want to go?
Does this include the abortion rates?
"African-American women make up 70 percent of new HIV/AIDS infections....."
...maybe get a husband?
.etc, etc. etc......
Maybe a lifestyle change would help.......
Pampers and paper, most of it green...
“What, stand on our own two feet like other Blacks who have made successes of themselves?”
“Oooooooooooooooooo, that gives me the chills!”
LOL
Oh no, you see the boatride over wasn’t “racism.” It was all well-intended for the benefit of Africans.
“From the cradle to the grave, African-Americans have poorer health outcomes”
Because as a whole, their eating habits are less healthy. Not a racist, but a factual statement.
“You cant eat everything fried in animal fat and expect to be healthy!”
Amen to that. You don’t see them peeling the skin off fried chicken.
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