{"id":5191,"date":"2004-05-03T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-03T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5191"},"modified":"2021-06-13T22:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T22:25:50","slug":"unhealthy-disparities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/05\/03\/unhealthy-disparities\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhealthy Disparities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 20, 2004, 8:46 a.m.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/script\/printpage.asp?ref=\/clegg\/clegg200404200846.asp\">Unhealthy Disparities: Race-Card Rx<\/a><br \/>\nBy Roger Clegg<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has announced that one of his highest priorities this year will be passing legislation designed to eliminate racial disparities in health care. The bill he&#8217;s introduced, S. 2217, includes provisions that would target federal money in various programs at &#8220;patient populations that are members of racial and ethnic minority groups&#8221; and at &#8220;increasing minority representation in the health care professions.&#8221; Now, moreover, some Democrats are saying that his bill would improve health care for too many whites and not enough minorities, apparently because the bill would also authorize expenditures on &#8220;health disparity populations&#8221; that might include non-minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever someone promises to attack a racial disparity, I worry. Because, inevitably, the problem turns out to be rooted in something other than race, so that taking a race-oriented approach results in more discrimination than you had to start out with.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 20, 2004, 8:46 a.m. Unhealthy Disparities: Race-Card Rx By Roger Clegg Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has announced that one of his highest priorities this year will be passing legislation designed to eliminate&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[127,199],"class_list":["post-5191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips","tag-affirmative-action-and-diversity","tag-health-and-medicine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1lJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7357,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5191\/revisions\/7357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}