Posted on 06/08/2020 3:14:38 PM PDT by fluorescence
After more than a week of protests against police brutality and racial injustice, Gov. Andy Beshear announced several actions Monday aimed at reducing racial inequality in Kentucky.
The biggest promise by far was a pledge to make sure every black Kentuckian has health insurance. He also announced plans to provide anti-bias and other training for police officers and teachers
“My commitment today is we’re going to begin an effort to cover 100 percent of our individuals in our black and african american communities,” Beshear said. “Everybody. We’re going to be putting dollars behind it, we’re going to have a multifaceted campaign to do it.”
Beshear provided few details to back up his pledge, but said his administration will work to connect black Kentuckians with private health insurers and Medicaid.
“The inequalities have been laid bare, have been exposed by this COVID-19 pandemic,” Beshear said. “It simply can’t be allowed to continue any longer and it shouldn’t have taken this type of pandemic and it shouldn’t have taken these types of demonstrations for us to commit to ending it.”
Black Kentuckians have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. About 8 percent of Kentucky’s population is black, but black Kentuckians make up 15.44 percent of all COVID-19 cases and 16.44 percent of all coronavirus-related deaths in the state.
There are about 20,000 uninsured black Kentuckians, according to the 2018 American Community Survey, which means about 5.8 percent of black Kentuckians are uninsured. The state’s overall uninsured rate, according to the same survey, was 5.6 percent.
While there has been a push among protesters to “defund the police” (shorthand for shifting resources in government to focus on preventative measures rather than law enforcement), the Beshear administration committed to adding training classes for Kentucky police officers.
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Just forget the Caucasian miners and their children in East and South Kentucky who ar unemployed.
Isn’t giving special treatment/free things to one skin color, you know, racist?
My blood pressure just went ten time higher.
I don’t have the words ..
Equal protection under the law. Constitutional?
Who’s gonna pay for it?
They are kulaks to him.
“””Who’s gonna pay for it?””””””
The honkies.
Hmmm, what about mixed-race? Maybe they only get dental coverage?
And then there's black Latinos like some Dominicans and Cubans. Maybe they just get prescription coverage?
Oh, this may get tricky.
What’s this BS?!
It is illegal for the state to provide services for just one race - it’s in complete and total violation of the Civil Rights legislation these same twits point to as the high point of progressivism!
And besides- under Obamacare, as you’ll recall, EVERYONE IS REQUIRED TO GET INSURANCE and those who can’t afford it can apply for medicare.
So you’re in violation of not one but TWO laws on the books written by Democrats for Democrat purposes.
“We must and can do better” - this isn’t a statement on America- this is the DNC making an apologetics tour of their failed policies AND states.
Feds say Kentucky to spend $272 million on Matt Bevin’s Medicaid changes in two years
They are white and therefore facists that must be destroyed.
The pandering and groveling by guilt-ridden Crackers grows by leaps and bounds.
Perhaps they could take a page from the Nazis and perform blood purity tests?
*fascists
Racist on its face.
Probably also unconstituional.
Not one bit.
Ummmmmmm...isn't that reverse discrimination?
What about the other colors/races besides black?
They are simply the wrong colors/races through no fault of their own.
More ammo, please.
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