Obamacare: More Interest Group Handouts
Mickey Kaus directs attention to this piece of interest group payola larded into the House version of the healthcare bill. The bill calls for cultural and linguistic training for healthcare professionals.
Mickey Kaus directs attention to this piece of interest group payola larded into the House version of the healthcare bill. The bill calls for cultural and linguistic training for healthcare professionals. In making grants for this purpose, the bill says:
The Secretary shall give preference to entities that have a demonstrated record of the following:The health industry is already a bonanza field for diversity professionals, with results half-comic, half-sinister. The University of Chicago operates a "Center for Latino Mental Health," based on the proposition that American Hispanics have "unique" mental health needs. Except in the bland sense that all individuals are unique, what does it mean to suggest that one ethnic group is somehow mentally set apart from others? To write this disturbing industry into the very structure of the complex new health bureaucracy the president and Congress seeks to create - well, maybe that's not the very worst thing in their plan. But it surely ranks near the top.(1) Addressing, or partnering with an entity with experience addressing, the cultural and linguistic competency needs of the population to be served through the grant or contract....