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Health gap kills 3,200 black Chicagoans every year (Really?!?)
Chicago Sun-Times ^
| 12/18/2009
| Monifa Thomas
Posted on 12/18/2009 4:04:35 PM PST by Sneakyuser
The wide racial gap in health is growing in Chicago, a major new study has found.
..."What's happening is that, as advances become available for these different diseases, white people are able to gain access to advances, and black people are not," said Steven Whitman, director of the Sinai Urban Health Institute. "It's absolutely essential to understand the underlying structural issues that are causing these disparities: those are racism and poverty."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: healthcare; obama; race; racism
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To: Sneakyuser
I wonder how health care is under Mugbe in Rhodesia, er I mean Zimbabwe
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:21:21 PM PST
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: 1955Ford
I thought her first name was a typo until I checked the original article.
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:21:47 PM PST
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: Sneakyuser
First time I ever heard of GSW's being called a "disease."
To: DoughtyOne
But I thought there were too many people on earth....So which is it?
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:23:16 PM PST
by
Freddd
(CNN is not credible.)
To: Sneakyuser
"What's happening is that, as advances become available for these different diseases, white people are able to gain access to advances, and black people are not," said Steven Whitman, director of the Sinai Urban Health Institute. "It's absolutely essential to understand the underlying structural issues that are causing these disparities: those are racism and poverty." As always, it's Whitey's fault!
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:23:31 PM PST
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: Sneakyuser
Whene is the Black entertainment industry charity concert to help these poor unfortunates?
I am certain Oprah is working day and night to organize this.
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:24:45 PM PST
by
NoLibZone
(If Reagan rises & runs I'll vote. Pure Conservative™ know it's better to have Obama, Ayers & Soros.)
To: Sneakyuser
aaaah yessss...the 0bama doctrine!!!
make an unsubstantiated SCARY claim (for extra effect, associate it with RACE!) and demand everyone instantly start giving you money.
yes...the 0bama doctrine..........
0 says it’s effective in healthcare and climate venues too!
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:25:56 PM PST
by
mreerm
To: Sneakyuser
Undoubtedly this is true.
One only has to look at the voter registration statistics to confirm it. At least 3200 DemoRats are newly registered and vote in each precinct every year.
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:26:44 PM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
To: Sneakyuser
"It's absolutely essential to understand the underlying structural issues that are causing these disparities: Don't worry, many of us understand the cause.
![](http://images.google.com/url?source=imgres&ct=img&q=http://img2.photographersdirect.com/img/15324/wm/pd846916.jpg&usg=AFQjCNHbLYkfRnqz0R2MdWhNpPa9WSkyQw)
Concentrated lead poisoning.
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:26:56 PM PST
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: Sneakyuser
Women and minorities hardest hit (by bullets in Chicago).
![](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2743/4175015880_cea9ebed9e_m.jpg)
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:28:09 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: Sneakyuser
Are you sure it wasn’t Ralm Emanual?
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:29:50 PM PST
by
Zathras
To: Freddd
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:29:54 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(This space for rent...)
To: Sneakyuser
The wide racial gap in health is growing in Chicago, a major new study has found.Community organizers not doing their jobs or just a lost agenda in the representation of Illinois?
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:31:58 PM PST
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: Sneakyuser
To: DTogo
“Underlying” and “structural” are liberal buzzwords whose use allows the speaker to blame anything on “racism” without having to produce any evidence.
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:35:50 PM PST
by
denydenydeny
(The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
To: Sneakyuser
The article states that all whites do have insurance and access to medical care.
And only blacks (Less than 13% of Americans) do not.
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:38:37 PM PST
by
NoLibZone
(If Reagan rises & runs I'll vote. Pure Conservative™ know it's better to have Obama, Ayers & Soros.)
To: Sneakyuser
“What’s happening is that, as advances become available for these different diseases, white people are able to gain access to advances, and black people are not,”
Doesn’t this mean that the medical profession is racist?
Just sayin’...
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:42:09 PM PST
by
PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2013: Change we can look forward to.)
To: Sneakyuser
Does this figure include all the aborted innocents?
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:45:58 PM PST
by
sodpoodle
(Stop wasting our wealth and start telling the truth.)
To: Sneakyuser
Since the Dems Deathcare Bill doesn’t become effective until 2013, the Dems are OK with 9600 blacks dying due to lack of healthcare.
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:47:29 PM PST
by
exit82
(Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
To: Sneakyuser
I thought it was the drug dealers and punks who are killing blacks in Chicago ...
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posted on
12/18/2009 4:49:53 PM PST
by
RightWingConspirator
(Impeach Zerobama and his band of Commie Czars.)
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