Obamacare seeks to segregate patients, doctors by race

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor under Obamacare — if you both belong to the same race.

Obamacare’s spectacular flop of a rollout distracts from its crude calculus that encourages the allocation of healthcare resources along racial lines and a doctor-patient system splintered into ethnicities.

While the 2010 Patient Protecion and Affordable Care Act’s language on diversity sounds innocuous, a review of the frankly separatist thinking of the law’s ardent supporters indicates Obamacare is aiming for a health care system that puts political correctness above the struggle against illness and death.

A 2009 report by the Center for American Progress (CAP) examining the House and Senate bill eventually signed by President Barack Obama advocates pairing patients and doctors of the same race, a goal toward which the law channels taxpayer dollars.

“Research suggests that health care providers’ diagnostic and treatment decisions, as well as their feelings about patients, are influenced by patients’ race or ethnicity,” the CAP report reads. “Several studies have shown that racial concordance is substantially and positively related to patient satisfaction.”

The key phrase is “race concordance” — a word which means “a state in which things agree and do not conflict with one another.”

“There is… evidence that race concordance — defined as shared racial or ethnic identities between clinicians and patients — is related to patient reports of satisfaction, participatory decision making, timeliness of treatment, and trust in the health system,” the report reads. In other words, fixing the broken U.S. healthcare system means assigning Hispanic doctors to Hispanic patients, African American doctors to African American patients, Creole doctors to Creole patients, and so on.

To accomplish this, the CAP report explains, Obamacare pours taxpayer dollars into affirmative-action candidates whose judgment will lead them to make life-or-death decisions. Ultimately, these taxpayer-funded grants would provide scholarships and loan forgiveness for minorities so they could provide healthcare services exclusively to their own race or ethnicity.

Via: Daily Caller

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FLASHBACK: Separate But Equal – It’s The Law Stupid …

We hear a lot of hemming and hawing from Democrats these days that Obamacare is the law of the land and found constitutional.

That got me to thinking – has there ever been a bad law that was ruled constitutional previously, verified as “The Law of The Land” yet ruled unconstitutional many years after?

I cracked open an old history book I had from my high school days and believe it or not, I actually did find one.

America is a Democratic Republic and as such, there are things that are made law every single day.  Most of these laws of which we’re completely unaware.

There are bad laws and there are good laws.  Our founders gave us a document that is a companion to the brain that God gave us.  They knew that “the law” is not rigid and uncompromising, but a living, evolving entity.

They knew things can and will change with the times.  To say that something is simply “the law” is asinine and ignorant of our country’s rich history of enacting laws that suckand then repealing laws when cooler/wiser/different heads prevailed.

I’ll leave you with this small list of laws that sucked and were ultimately repealed.

• Separate but Equal
• Jim Crow
• Prohibition
• Fugitive Slave Act
• Alien & Sedition Act
• Chinese Exclusive Act

Via: Weasel Zippers

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Michelle Obama Invokes Civil War, Segregation in Reelection Push

Sometimes, it might seem like the battles for our rights and liberties are some distant memory – even something you’ve only read about in a textbook or seen in a documentary.

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The Emancipation Proclamation was signed a century and a half ago. The marches and boycotts and lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights era are 50 or 60 years behind us.

And today, there are no longer any separate water fountains, no more guards keeping any of our children from the schoolhouse door.  That’s a sign of how far we’ve come – we live in a world with progress that our parents and grandparents would never have even dreamed of.

But that doesn’t mean that our work is finished.

And while today’s challenges may not feel as glaring, they’re every bit as urgent. Do children who go to an understaffed, crumbling school truly have a fair shot at success?  If a family has a son or daughter born with a genetic disease, should they have to fight day and night with insurance companies just to get the insurance coverage they need?  Are our children falling behind because our communities aren’t safe or supportive enough for them to reach their potential?  And how do we preserve our most fundamental right to cast our ballots for our children and grandchildren?

All of those questions have one common answer – and it’s an answer that harkens back to the generations before us. It’s about all of us standing up, getting engaged, and making our voices heard. It’s about getting engaged in our communities. It’s about using the power of our vote to elect leaders who will fight so that those students get the schools they deserve, and those families keep their insurance, and those communities will have voices speaking out on their behalf.

Via: News One

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