ObamaCare Violates Civil Rights Act by Introducing Quotas on Race

Healthcare in crappy ghetto cities like Detroit is crappy because, according to leftists, not enough minorities are serving as doctors. Not because no one wants to live and work in Detroit. So there is a provision in the Obamacare bill that gives more money to healthcare organizations that have higher numbers of minorities working for them than to racially deficient groups.

Michelle Malkin has the details here:

One provision states that programs with “a record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups or from a rural or disadvantaged background” will be given priority for government money. Programs and medical institutions that practice racial preferences will be moved further up the money queue than programs and medical institutions that disregard race.

The one who disregards skin color is penalized. Hopenchange in America!

By the way, the Civil Rights Act prohibits government racial discrimination and preferences. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called the provisions racially discriminatory and sent President Barack Obama and Congress letters warning them about the provisions. The politicians ignored the warning, naturally.

Medical institutions competing for federal dollars may end up lowering academic standards for minority applicants, and added that “race-based attempts to achieve some ill-defined ‘critical mass’ of minority students or to demonstrate a ’sufficient’ record of training such students are constitutionally suspect… It is generally illegal for the government to show favoritism or even use classifications based on race, ethnicity, or sex.”

Raising the quality of care at hospitals in the 500 largest minority serving areas would improve minority health care more than eliminating racial disparities within every provider in the U.S.

That’s ObamaCare. Sticking it to Whitey.