You’ve heard of the problems of the website, and maybe even the non-vetting of the “navigators” who will have access to all kinds of information on you if you apply. But there are so many problems inherent in the law and its application that haven’t even begun to hit the public consciousness yet.
This one is almost beyond belief, millions allocated to achieve “racial concordance”-matching doctors and patients along racial lines and providing grants, contracts and other taxpayer-funded subsidies to “eliminate racial and ethnic disparities”.
I can see more constitutional challenges coming just on this alone.
Via Daily Caller:
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.”