Health Care in Black and White

The health care debate goes racial

I shook my head in sadness when I read this article.  Not so much over the minority activism; we all have the right to petition our government.  What made me shake my head was how the average reporter consumes, lives, breathes, and craps liberal tropes and shibboleths. 

Here she talks about how minority voices are finally entering the debate:

Missing from the noise so far: the voices of minorities, who are disproportionately represented among the poor and uninsured and could benefit the most from reform, and who are more likely than others to have chronic illnesses such as diabetes. They are symbols of the failures of the current system.

How does the plight of minorities symbolize the "failure" of our health care system?  Is the system a failure because it isn't free (i.e. funded by taxpaying citizens or money borrowed from China)?  Are chronic diseases like diabetes racist for preying upon minorities more than white people?

Here's a clue to what the root cause is:

In recent weeks, his group has been highlighting the fact that blacks and Latinos are more likely to be uninsured than whites. According to 2008 census figures, 10.8 percent of whites are uninsured, compared with 30.7 percent of Hispanics, 17.6 percent of Asians and 19.1 percent of blacks.

Bingo!  Blacks and Latinos are also more likely to be unemployed than whites.  If you don't have a job you can't pay for insurance.  No racist conspiracy there.

This is a failure of the system, all right.  A failure of state and local governments to provide an attractive business climate so people can find a job and take care of themselves.  Low taxes, reasonable regulatory environment and a dependable, educated workforce is all a business asks for. 

Community organizers and their liberal political enablers all across this great land have failed to provide these requisites that would make their adult charges self-sufficient.   Notice how communities full of working people don't need organizing?

It's all about jobs.  If everybody had one, liberals and most of government would be out of theirs.

WaPo - Healthcare and Race