Racial Preferences in Health Care Reform Bill
The House of Representatives’ version of the so-called health care reform bill contains several references to racial preferences. Here’s an example, found on pages 881-882 (emphases added):
“In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of…Training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds.”
For the record, “disadvantaged backgrounds” isn’t referring to individuals of any race; it means racial minorities. This practice, illegal under the U.S. Constitution and the Civil Rights Act, provides medical schools with a perverse incentive: lower standards for black applicants and assess their qualifications on a separate track to get more taxpayers’ money.
All in a day’s work for the Obama administration. After all, Thomas Perez, the president’s nominee for assistant attorney general for civil rights, believes medical schools should drop standards for black applicants because they’re more likely to work in “underserved” communities than white doctors. In other words, he wants to send lower quality doctors to poor communities.
Nice.
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