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Minority Lawmakers Push to Close Health Gaps

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AP, June 9, 2009

Black, Latino and Asian lawmakers warned Democratic leaders that any health care overhaul that ignores health gaps between whites and minorities will face stiff opposition.

The lawmakers said they would be hard-pressed to support a bill without a new program providing access to health care for all Americans.

“The public health option has to be there,” Rep. Mike Honda, a California Democrat who chairs the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, said at a news conference. “If we don’t have a public option, there’s no discussion.”

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New legislation

Members of the Asian caucus, along with the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, said they plan to introduce legislation this week that includes their wish list for broadening health care overhaul beyond various plans floated in the House and Senate.

Citing federal research showing higher rates of cancer, diabetes, heart disease and infant mortality among minorities, they said they would seek more funds for community health centers that provide care in poor neighborhoods.

The lawmakers also called for expanding a National Institutes of Health center that focuses on minority health concerns, works to improve work force diversity in the medical industry and collects more data to better track disparities in health care.

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“Believe me, a comprehensive health care reform bill without the aspects that we’re discussing today will be set for failure,” said Rep. Nydia Velazquez, a New York Democrat who chairs the Hispanic caucus.

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(Posted on June 10, 2009)

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1 — Question Diversity wrote at 6:17 PM on June 10:

The only way to close “health gaps” between minorities and whites is to deny health care to whites, Harrison Bergeron style. And, as a regular here at AR who calls him/herself “White Nurse” tells us, that’s just what they’re planning to do.

One of the sub rosa purposes for these “community health centers” is to provide sinecure almost do-nothing jobs to black graduates of the many “allied health careers” colleges that have popped out of the woodwork in the past few decades.

2 — sbuffalonative wrote at 7:02 PM on June 10:


I saw the CBC citing the example of closing black hospitals as proof of racial disparity in health care.

What they didn’t say is that black hospitals are closing because they’re run by incompetent black managers and incompetent black staff.

3 — A Reader wrote at 10:06 PM on June 10:

The “minority leaders” don’t think that enough wealth (or income) was redistributed from whites to underqualified minorities during the recent subprime mortgage meltdown that brought the American economy to its knees.

They want to suck more until the last drop is left in our veins.

4 — Tim wrote at 10:23 PM on June 10:

Already the cost to insure minorties for health care, whether through medicare, medicaid, medical or United Health Care is two to three times what it is for Asians or Whites. All you have to do is walk through the hospital the next time you are visiting a relative and see what the ratio is for whites and minorities.
The minorities are much more likely to abuse drugs, alcohol,or tobacco. They are much less likely to take the medicines prescribed. They are much more likely to seek hospitalization when they are ill and have a much higher return hospitalization rate than whites.
The Black Causus bemoans the “health care gap” but they carefully hide the well documented fact that minorities cost the health system far more than whites. Every person that is admitted to a hospital is classified as to race so all the information is at the law makers fingers as far as cost per patient.

5 — Istvan wrote at 10:42 PM on June 10:

So there is an Asian caucus? Didn’t know that.

So now I have to be taxed because some 300lbs black woman has abused her body and thus needs even more state funded health care to close the “health gap”? I work with mostly blacks and it is amazing the degree of obesity, smoking, and substance abuse, and sexual promiscuity that exists in that population. Throwing more money after bad.

More than ever we need to admit defeat. Divvy up the country so that mean old whitey can live alone.

6 — Randolph Carter wrote at 12:04 AM on June 11:

The current national debt is 11.4 Trillion. I suspect “closing the healthcare gap” will not cause that number to decrease. The people running the show are either clueless or they are purposely trying to run the economy into the ground.

7 — Madison Grant wrote at 2:05 AM on June 11:

One reason blacks and hispanics have poorer health than whites is due to their higher rates of obesity caused in part by junk food and lack of exercise. They also have more drug use and STDs.

But of course they refuse to take any responsibility for their own problems, intead blaming “racism” (that means us).

8 — Anonymous wrote at 9:49 AM on June 11:

We hate this “racist, white, oppressive country…but we need your money”

9 — Wolfin wrote at 4:02 PM on June 12:

5 — Istvan wrote at 10:42 PM on June 10:

“More than ever we need to admit defeat. Divvy up the country so that mean old whitey can live alone.”

Well said and I would go for it. I have to admit, like most of the posters here, I prefer my own kind, but think about it. If we split the country between Whites and Non-Whites, how long do you think it would be before we would have to provide foreign aid to those territories even if we could decide on who gets what? There is NO successful model I am aware of any Black run company or country that thrives or even survives without White support. We would really have to control the borders better than we do now. Imagine…press one for English, two for Spanish and three for thug.

Even with diversity pushed relentlessly in our face, when has that ever been successful and resulted and some sort of synergy? Please, anybody tell me of one. It’s got to be out there.

The world is on fire and the average White is worried about Britney.


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