Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear announced Monday plans to correct inequalities in healthcare coverage in the state.
WAVE reported that, during his COVID-19 updates, Beshear has revealed the racial makeup of Kentucky's coronavirus cases. Cases involving black patients have outpaced the state's black population.
“We are gonna begin an effort to cover 100 percent of our individuals in our black and African-American communities,” the governor said. “We’re gonna be putting dollars behind it.”
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He has to know it's illegal discrimination. Plus, I am not convinced that the problem is lack of health insurance for black Americans. There's a higher incidence of obesity and its complications -- high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. And I am convinced that a major factor is Vitamin D deficiency among darker-skinned Americans. Light-skinned Americans have that problem, too, but African skin unfortunately doesn't make Vitamin D easily. Urban dwellers don't get enough sun.
Anything to pander for votes. You are right, though. There is no way this stands up to scrutiny if someone were to sue on 14th amendment grounds.
Handouts & gimmes...the time honored lifeblood of a politician. Damn the taxpayers!
Given that a great many appellate judges follow the I-Say-It's-Spinach school of jurisprudence, it wouldn't surprise me if it did get by the courts. 14th Amendment jurisprudence is fraudulent.
The man is a lawyer.
The whole idea is stupid, and stupid in ways you'd expect from a lawyer. Modes of financing medical care aren't the source of 'disparities' in morbidity and mortality in this venue. The source of the disparities is (1) greater prevalence of infection and (2) worse outcomes among those infected. We have a passable idea of the source of the bad outcomes at this point: bad outcomes are correlated with BMI, and blacks tend to have higher BMIs. There are a mess of hypotheses you can offer about why blacks are more likely to be infected. These would include lower sq. footage per person in black households, greater likelihood of having service employment which brings you into contact with strangers, more time spent in buses, and the prevalence of styles of conversation which make transmitting respiratory illnesses more likely. None of these have anything to do with modes of medical finance.
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