Posted on 08/04/2020 2:56:20 AM PDT by USA Conservative
Local lawmakers and medical professional from California laid out their plans on Monday to have racism declared a public health crisis throughout the state after various cities and counties voted on measures to label the issue an emergency.
Dr. Ravi Kavasery, a physician with AltaMed Health Services, told The Orange County Register that due to the Trump administration's enforcement of federal immigration law, undocumented immigrants are concerned they will be denied citizenship in the future if they attempt to take advantage of California's Medicaid health program.
“The very first thing I see is patients who are scared to seek medical care because of policies such as the ‘public charge’ rule,” he said.
Kavasery added, “The public charge rule actively discourages immigrants and people of color from seeking medical care. It’s an excellent example that shows the link between systemic racism and public health. You see unequal access and health outcomes.”
San Bernardino reportedly became the first county in the state to pass such a measure on June 23. Supervisor Josie Gonzales, who led the effort, called it a moment of clarity that was long overdue.
“This was our ‘a-ha’ moment,” she said. “The need for this declaration has been there for a very long time. But, in government, you need to build consensus and, many times, you wait for the right people to get in office. We had four other supervisors who were not afraid to support this resolution. This needed to be said aloud.”
The city and county of Los Angeles soon followed suit, as did several other counties for a total of 83 nationwide, as of Friday, according to the American Public Health Association’s website.
There was pushback from The Inland Empire Citizens Action Committee and Foothill Taxpayers Association.
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How about governing by insanity being a public health crisis? Likely much more applicable in California.
Black vs Asian racism ???Black vs white racism ???? Black vs Hispanic racism??????Black murdering each other racism?????
No,the only “acceptable “ racism is white vs black...
I have nothing against illegal aliens seeking medical health care... IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES.
2% of the populace has now convinced 45% of the populace
that 100% of their small numbers are mistreated.
Reparations in 5, 4, 3,...
What is the operational definition of racism?
Well, there you go. Now they’ll totally fix racism, and we’ll all live in perfect happiness.
By minorities against Whites, right?
Slaves to a commie state. Not hard to imagine at all. Conservatives need 100% voter turnout to beat this back.
Conservatives also need to vote with their pocketbook.
No cable tv.
No national name brands.
Buy local/generic as much as possible.
How is racism a “health crisis?”
These terms are misused and thrown about as another example of language in America now completely corrupted into meaningless gibberish.
The only “health crisis” here is most Americans are SICK TO DEATH OF Leftists hysterically labeling everything they dislike with the incendiary word “racism.”
This is not the language of debate. This is the language of childish temper tantrums.
They will continue to distort the language to achieve their commie goals.
So... the US has an obligation to provide free health care to the entire world’s population
California racism is exacerbated by wealthy celebrities living in palatial homes surrounded by walls
This is because they’ve found that declaring something a “public health crisis” gives them unlimited powers to suspend the Constitution and all our rights and guarantees and rule by decree.
Could royally backfire on them if it’s applied equally but we all know that’ll never happen.
Yep, and if they manage to seize power in November, that will be coming.
They love the 1619 project, but they are going to hate the 6013 project.
That’s when they’ll learn about white fragility, or not.
I think there is going to be a 556 project also.
Absolutely, racism is at crisis levels in kommiefornia. And, in as much as it’s only Caucasians who are the victims, it’s past time to remedy this abomination.
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