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Racial Preferences in the Democrats' Health Care Bill
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Report; Posted on: 2009-07-22 18:25:51 [ Printer friendly / Instant flyer ]
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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."
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