Racial Preferences in the Democrats' Health Care Bill

[WillowTree]

All 1,018 pages of the Democrats' health care bill can be inspected here. The bill includes racial preferences. Under the Democrats' health care bill, if a medical school wants to increase its chances of receiving many different kinds of grants and contracts from the federal government, it should have a demonstrated record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups. This is because the Democrats' health care bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to give preference to the entities that have demonstrated such a record in the awarding of these contracts to medical schools and other institutions.

The bill does not state what would qualify as a "demonstrated record", so we can expect medical schools and the other entities to do whatever they think they can get away with to train as many "individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups" as they think they might need to have a better "demonstrated record" in this regard then other entities competing for the grants and contracts. The Democrats' health care bill creates a very significant financial incentive for medical schools and other entities to lower admission standards for "individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups" if that is what it takes to have the winning "demonstrated record".

On page 879-880, the bill states that the Secretary of Health and Human Services

"shall make grants to, or enter into contracts with, eligible entities . . . to operate a professional training program in the field of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, or geriatrics, to provide financial assistance and traineeships and fellowships to those students, interns, residents or physicians who plan to work in or teach in the field of family medicine, general internal medicine, general pediatrics, or geriatrics."


On page 881-882 the bill states:

"In awarding grants or contracts under this section, the Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following: . . . Training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or disadvantaged backgrounds."

American Thinker: Racial Preferences in the Democrats' Health Care Bill

 

[Xenophon]

More social engineering.

Does it ever stop?

 

[William Joyce]

More social engineering.

Does it ever stop?

Yes... when whites are totally exterminated from the face of the earth!

 

[editec]

The AMA has been social engineering for the last 50 years by limiting the number of MDs trained in US colleges.

You folks do realize that the number of doctors in Med school hasn't increased since 1970, right?

Meanwhile how much has our population increased?

But hey, let's blame the government for that.

That's our favorite scapegoat.

 

[007]

Affirmative Action all over again... even after we elected a black President.

What a democrap will pull never ceases to astonish me.

 

[Modbert]

The AMA has been social engineering for the last 50 years by limiting the number of MDs trained in US colleges.

You folks do realize that the number of doctors in Med school hasn't increased since 1970, right?

Meanwhile how much has our population increased?

But hey, let's blame the government for that.

That's our favorite scapegoat.

No facts allowed in the Republican Circle Jerk!

 

[PixieStix]

Good, I do not want no part of it anyhow. They have been pulling this crap on us for decades now, all under the guise of equality.

Go ahead and oppress and dictate and otherwise enslave the so called "minority or underpriviledged" They will be government employees. They will forever be indebted to the government

 

[Harry Dresden]

No facts allowed in the Republican Circle Jerk!

so are you saying there is just an abundance of facts in a Democrat circle jerk?

 

[alan1]

More social engineering.

Does it ever stop?

Ask the Wise Latina woman.

 

[Big Black Dog]

I don't think you need to worry about it. This stupid health care bill isn't going to pass. It's in political ICU even as we speak. I suspect that pretty soon someone will pull the plug and move on to some other stupid Democratic idea that cost a lot of money that we don't have.