Hidden Deep Within ObamaCare, Racial Preferences
So what’s the rationale behind this nonsense? Well, due to the disproportionately poorer health that’s found among poor blacks and Latinos, the assumption is that this is caused by racism and health care discrimination. This is always the fall-back position of leftists and liberals, since sloppy thinking won’t allow examining other contributing factors: bad eating habits, heredity, and levels of fitness may not always be as good among all groups.
But institutionalized racial preferences and ethnic quotas at nursing, dental, and medical schools is nothing new. What the bill’s language does that is new is make sure that race, sex and ethnic quotes will be institutionalized in perpetuity.
Medical schools have been making use of racial preferences for decades. And like everywhere else where racial preferences have been practiced, there’s a huge downside.
To be sure, outstanding black and Latino students are studying at many of the nation’s best medical training institutes. But racial preference policies have allowed other black and Latino students who are less-than-qualified into many of these same schools. This has led to high dropout rates and the failure to pass critical licensing exams at rates far higher than their classmates.
To be sure, the language about racial preferences in Obama’s bill has alarmed the United States Commission on Civil Rights. (I currently serve as a California State advisor to this federal commission.) This commission recently sent a letter to President Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (among other key political figures). The commissioners said, in an understated-kind-of-way: “Racial preferences in the Senate Health Care Bill, in addition to being unconstitutional, will not improve health care outcomes for minority patients.” Examining the terms of the race provisions, they said they find them “constitutionally suspect and ill-defined.”
In a stiff and bureaucratic way, necessary in the context of intergovernmental agency politics, the commission has “called out” Obama, Pelosi and Reid. The 1964 Civil Rights Act made it unlawful to discriminate against any individual because of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. But now liberal Democrats want to pass a health care bill that, among its many problems, tries to provide new racial entitlements for “underrepresented minority groups,” all the while turning a blind eye to discrimination against those who are not.
Some say that life is a game of winners and losers. This might be true, but we shouldn’t allow Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid to pick the people who win or lose just because of skin color or their last name.
I am not surprised that this language is in the bill. Progressives’ only means of survivability is to divide and conquer. Though, I think it is finally going to hit the wall very soon. You can only hyphenate your prefixed American identity so much then it just falls apart. Of course when everyone is equal, then no one will be.
These people still think they can pick up a turd by the clean end.
That’s not just racial preferences, that’s a dog whistle grant to ACORN, or whatever they’re calling themselves these days.
I don’t believe Mr. Obama realizes he is playing with fire.After healthcare,on to cap and tax and amnesty. That is system overload.
This is exactly the kind of insidious b.s. I’ve seen creeping into our country as the ‘new equality racism’ under the guise of ‘fairness’.
If Blacks and Hispanics are obese it’s because of racism.
If Blacks and Hispanics are poor it’s because of racism.
If Blacks and Hispanics have more STDs than other people it’s because of racism.
If Hispanics and Blacks don’t have a good education it’s because of racism.
If Hispanics and Blacks have more babies than they can afford without help from welfare it’s because of racism.
-And, of course, if Blacks and Hispanics have poor health it’s because of racism.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Reading that language I am feeling pretty “disadvantaged” myself, but I don’t think that is what they mean.
People thought I was alarmist and a bit wacky when i was crying out that these “progressives” are going to enact reparations. I was called racist, a liar, insane. Those people will not look me in the eye today. Let me state the people Obama has hung out with for decades have stated the need for “camps”. These people have also stated the willingness to dispose of American citizens if it becomes necessary. We are looking at the beginning of the end of freedom. I do have faith in most of our military. If it comes to that. I think it will. You heard it here first. Arm yourselves.
White progressives will never let go of the chains of slavery.
As a Hispanic myself, I find this entry in the bill very insulting and repulsive..I DO NOT WANT the government to give me ANYTHING because of my race…ALL THAT I HAVE WORKED FOR IN MY LIFE WILL BE IN VAIN…I would be judged for my skin color than what I can offer for the good of all…DISPICABLE….GRAVELY DISPICABLE!!!!!!!……
Say Jose, until the civil rights bozos A the census bureau changed the definitions years ago….you used to be caucasian
GOP should propose a new law, which requires that every registered Democrat should get medical services only from a doctor from an underrepresented minority group or disadvantaged background. Any registered Democrat that ignores this regulation, will be forced to pay $1,000 per offense. A citizen who reports on a Democrat violating this rule, will be awarded 10% of the fine.
9. Hyphenated American,
Ha! That would be something eh? But, just like elite Leftists won’t live near minorities, I highly doubt they would hire an “affirmative action” doctor for their own family (kind of like the same hypocrisy of congress to exempt themselves from obamacare).
Methinks the rarefied air of the elites has the not-so-subtle stench of manure.
I don’t think this will be a long term problem, as if it passes there will be alot of highly qualified people leaving the field of medicine. As supply dwindles the standards as well as quality of people entering the field will fall naturally.
The goal is advertised to bend the cost curve. What they are really doing is breaking the laws of supply and demand. The results are very predictable. FAIL!!!!
SCARY……
Is this REALLY our AMERICA??????
Know the TRUTH about the Government Health Care Bill H.R.3200 – Key Points
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8
SCARY……
The highly destructive Cap and Trade. An inferior health care plan that no one wants and cannot afford to pay. The threat to jail and/or fine those who don’t purchase the government enforced plan. Massive spending as if there is no tomorrow. Massive borrowing. Massive debt. The massive printing of paper money. There is no question that the total DESTRUCTION of America’s economy is planned. The results will be horrifying. In the once wealthy and great nation of America, millions of Americans will become destitute, hungry and homeless with no money or resources to help them.
OBAMA: DEBT UNSUSTAINABLE
Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’
By Roger Runningen and Hans Nichols
May 14 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.
“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”
Holders of U.S. debt will eventually “get tired” of buying it, causing interest rates on everything from auto loans to home mortgages to increase, Obama said. “It will have a dampening effect on our economy.”…
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJsSb4qtILhg&refer=worldwide
Obama admits the terrible financial destruction wrought against Americans. WHY then DOES OBAMA NOT IMMEDIATELY REVERSE THIS TRAGEDY?
A major investor states America is going to reach Zimbabwe hyperinflation.
http://economyincrisis.org/articles/show/2942
The numbers are pretty evenly split when it comes to health care reform. Most estimates indicate that 45-55% of Americans support health care reform (depending on which poll you’re looking at) A new poll suggests that 53% are opposed, so it’s pretty even on both sides.
White men have been out of fashion for the last 30 years; they are, possibly, the most ‘under-represented minority’ group going.
the government has been promising sweet dishes but continue to serve bowls of crap. the parasite bill isn’t good for any one, it will control the poor by withholding care and control the middle class by taxes until you become the poor. what race you happen to be has nothing to do with breaking us, other than a way to separate us into controllable groups.
The student loan bill which has been added to the Health Care Bill also includes racial discrimination in violation of the Constitution.
14. Adrian,
The subject of this article isn’t about ‘polls’. Do you even care about all of the crap that is buried in this HUGE bill?
California state law expressly prohibits racial preferences in admissions to any state university, and that law has been on the books since 1996. Our law is very clear: “the state shall not discriminate against or give preference to anyone on the the basis of race” in addmission to state universities, public contracting, or public employment.
re:14
There is a big difference between health care reform and the bill that they are trying to pass.
The bill is NOT reform, it is a power grab.
I have no doubt that as time goes by we will find more and more horrifying impacts relating to this bill.
Im wondering-how did my white “rascism” create the 70% illegetimacy rate in the black community? How did my “rascism” create an unsightly murder rate in Cuadad Juarez, Mexico, right across the border from El Paso,Texas? 46% of this country is already government dependent, which explains how idiots like the Obama commiemoslem and the Bolshevik Bitch Piglosi ever got into power. By the way, has the Obamacommiemooselimb heard of the BAAKE DECISION from the 1970s?
God bless you Mr. Hicks.
Nobody cares that we have institutionalized discrimination against white working and middle class people. It immoral, illegal and destroys millions of lives while trashing our most precious demographic.
You won’t hear a peep about this travesty in our war to stop Obamacare.
By the way-I say lets STOP BEING AFRAID. Its time to FIGHT BACK.
Adrian:
You are right, 55% are for Obama’s bill, 53% are against. That’s the rough estimate coming from the liberals – same guys who think Obamacare will cut premiums by amazing 3000%.
The racial preferences in this bill are exactly what “W” said about set-asides. They are the epitome of “the soft bigotry of low expectations.”
When ,oh, when will people be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin?
The Deemocrats do not want equal opportunity. They want equal outcomes.
In one short year, the Great Unifier Obama has succeeded in intensifying the rift between not only the races, but the classes and political camps in America. I have been following American politics for 20 years and have never felt such tension amongst the American people as I do now.
Mr. Hicks, I just wanted to thank you for your excellent PJTV videos too btw.
As a white middle class working stiff who went to medical school, I think my experience is not unique.
I graduated from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. At the time I made my application, Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians received significant advantage by the awarding of “points” to their application; this was in 1995 and I hope it has changed. I put myself through Pre-Med by driving a service truck and crawling under houses. I think the system is blatantly unfair. When I asked admissions why Asians and Indians were not included as minorities, I was told because they do well in school.
Even so, I still believe that anyone who has the guts to complete medical school probably deserves to be there. I just wish the selection process was color blind.
According to the BLT religion,(a religion Obama and his family imbrace), this is only fair.
G__ D__ America said Rev. Wright!
What a way to have your life ended: at the hands of an AA doctor.
“addition to being unconstitutional, will not improve health care outcomes”
While I understand that the democrat party my care to some small degree about improving health care outomes, I see no reason to believe the give a damn about whether something is unconstitutional or not. Obviously, the democrat party has decided that they need not feel restrained and will no longer abide by a document they see as emboding only, “… negative rights”, as their leader put it.
Regards
Does anyone think that the hypocritical slime millionaires like Pelosi, Reid and the Obamas, not to mention Emanuel, Andy Stern, Axelrod and the rest of the demons, does anyone really think that they will have to get the same kind of welfare healthcare they want to dole out to the masses? No, they’ll have access to the best, all paid for by you and me while we’ll be lucky to get an office visit within 6 months of calling our doctors. We’ll have to crawl and beg for every last antibiotic, x-ray and surgery while they rake in the millions from the trillion dollar slush fund. Read The Devils by Dostoevsky, we are dealing with true nihilists here who don’t give a crap what they do, how they do it or who they do it too – there is a second American Revolution coming if these people aren’t thrown out soon.
So… by “disadvantaged background” I assume they mean people of European descent, since the lack of racial preferences for them is a disadvantage.
Why not, ricpic; the country is dying under an affirmative action “President”.
Anyone applying to med school should claim minority status and then make them define how much is enough. One-drop rule, anyone?
ACORN/SEIU medical programs/recruitment… selfish, ignorant, racist, minority medical people who’re qualified just because they’re the “right” race. Lovely.
#35, great point.
I’m Sicilian. If I decide to attend Grad School I’ll claim a smidgen of ‘Moor’. Ridiculous.
I’ve one question. When will the ‘oppressed’ no longer be ‘oppressed’?
We’ve a myriad of nationalities, sexes and varying sexual orientation-types in every facet of politics (can this be why our country is in such dire straits.. of course) in our country, it’s time to stop ‘the experiment’. It’s failed. Big time..
Because of quotas like these I am suspicious of the qualifications of any black or hispanic doctor. Logically I know that is unfair, but so are these quotas.
37. paul_unalaska
When the ‘oppressed’ have finally become the new ‘oppressors’?
Appeasement will never be obtained to the likes of failed, unrealized persons. JMO.
Hey, why is everyone so glum? Spring has come, the snow is melting, days getting warmer and longer…and there’s music in the air
“everywhere I hear the sound
of marching, charging feet
cause Summer’s here and time the time is right
for fighting in the street.
But what can an out of work boy do
but join a tea party band?
cause corrupt Washington is just the place
for a street fightin man”
sounds like this means that if you are a lazy do nothing, lack a backbone to do better…you get special treatment from Obama???? How embarrassing would it be to be one of Obama’s “special” folks….
the time is coming…
I want my country back!! COUP!! COUP!!! COUP!!
8. Jose Garcia,
Your post was short but so very heart-breakingly poignant. What you shared from your gut is what I imagine many people of darker shades of melanin feel. The racism via soft-bigotry of the Leftists is a cruel stab at people of darker complexions from the Africa from whence we all sprang and who worked their way in the world without affirmative action policies must feel insulted doubly so when they compete for jobs against AA beneficiaries. Not to mention that those kinds of insulting policies to people of more melanin further divides us as human beings and degrades the people for which the supposed ‘affirmative action’ policies are supposed to ‘lift up’.
This country voted for a black man without a history to speak of and with the name ‘Hussein’ as his middle name and ‘Barack’ as his first name even after 9/11. If anything our country has so pivotally turned PC that we will accept a man of ‘color’ to prove how ‘far’ we’ve come, even when the ‘man of color’ is a racist and antisemitic, megalomanic nut-case.
The Blacks and Hispanics who are law-abiding, hard working, literate and first and foremost AMERICAN should be cherished and held on high and that includes the courageous American who is Joe Hicks (and happens to be black).
You have got an AFFIRMATIVE ACTION President why are you surprised when he generates RACIST Legislation, you have got a MOHAMMEDAN President why are you surprised when in International affairs he licks Mohammedan *ass and attacks the JEWS, you have got an extreme left wing SOCIALIST President why are you surprised when he makes COMMUNIST legislation, you have got an inexperienced, corrupt, inefficient President why are you surprised when you get 3000 page GOBBLEDEGOOK that no one reads as Legislation but which contains COMMUNIST and RACIST imperatives you have got a RACIST President why are you surprised when he enacts AFFIRMATIVE ACTION legislation, you have got a RACIST minority which comprises 13% of the VOTERS why are you surprised when they vote like RACISTS and STILL support him, you have a solid bedrock of 20-30% of voters who are unashamedly left wing, PC,MC Islamophile brainwashed moonbats why are you surprised when they CONTINUE to support the LYING MOHAMMEDAN BOGUS POTUS.
You have let the TROJAN HORSE through the gates America all thats left are the vain and increasingly desperate attempts to hold back the tide close the gates and stop the complete Left Wing, PC, MC, NAZI, Islamophile takeover.
I picked up on the quotas the first time I saw the House bill on the internet. I am glad someone else picked up on it. If we get Obamacare we will see more and more unqualifed medical school graduates. As far as Obama’s racism, if you read his memoirs his racism is very evident.
If they discriminate and do not educate white people who is left to pay the taxes that support the welfare population that refuse to work or the illegal with 15 kids { all Americans }
“Does the sanctuary of your ignorance coming crashing down around you. First, of all white people are not from America. If you want your country back, first you got to find it and go to where it is. Even with this new bill, there is still racism, and yes there are still idiots in this world spouting untruths and hate. Yes, there are very smart black people who qualify for prestigious positions that they don’t get because of discrimination and it is reverse because some white people that get these promotions can’t even read or write that get positions. Deniable all inalienable rights.
Think people and get rid of the stupidity and hate.
I fear we may be past the point of no return and are about to experience first hand:
We have granted our government the power and size to give us everything we need and are about to find out a government this strong can also take everything we have.
Another “No whites need apply” program from the government. And people are surpised by this because…? One of the reasons why I left the Left is because I realized they wanted to discriminate against me. Not cool.
Aren’t men underrepresented in the nursing field?
Sandra, you are the POSTER CHILD for Obama’s cause regarding your go-nowhere rant.
I hope you’re distant, perhaps a galaxy or 3 from molding young minds in any sort of English, History or any subject 1 or more people will take heed of your nonsense.
That said I find your comment was, uhm.. lacking.
Nonetheless, enjoy your 1st Amendment rights.
49. sandra,
Your idea that a bunch of ‘illiterate white men’ have gotten ahead over literate minorities is pretty odd. Care to back that up?
Illiterate can come from all shades:
Retired Teacher Reveals He Was Illiterate Until Age 48</a
Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?</a
That is a huge problem to allow those who are less-than-qualified into many Medical Schools jus because of the color of their skin. Reverse racism is still Racism. I recommend watching the Mr. Hicks Video with the link at beginning of this article.
Let your state’s govenor and attorney general know you will support a state-led revolution against these communists that are in the White House and the Congress. It only takes 34 states to dissolve the Federal Government.
The states have to get their militias back under their control.
The militias that are already deployed oversees should not be allowed to re-deploy when they come home on leave. Any new recruits should be kept at home. Some States have already passed resolutions to do this.
The states have to get off the Federal Money wagon. This is how they get in a trick bag with the Feds having power over the school systems and the transportation systems. The states have to stop the extravagant entitlement programs in their own yards.
The bottom line is, the Entitlement People have control of the Federal Government and they are making sure they are entitled to your income. If the States don’t step up to the plate, it could get bloody.
jewish, i dont think so, they get in by clout/connections. i personally know jewish doctors who did hard drugs and were c avergae students who got in medical school by jewish clout. At the same time high flying white boys could not get in because of their gender/race. Ant the negros/latinos? pray these AA ‘doctors’ dont diagnose you, i deliberatly avoid them. My firends a doc and told me of a story of a AA doctor who failed the MD board test 5 X’s, and still did not know how many chambers were in the human heart. The race of this idiot was obvious
That is not the only racially motivated item in the “law” The only business that it specifically singled out for a tax is ‘INDOOR TANNING SALONS SHALL BE TAXED 10% ON THEIR FEES TO THEIR CUSTOMERS”. This is obvious and blatant discrimination in that white people are the only ones that would use a “tanning salon” You will never see a black or hispanic person getting a tan, but they knew that when they wrote it. It would be the same as (for example) taxing only salons that used chemicals or equipment for hair-straightening. At least if they want to be bigots, they should be smarter than that.