The Biden administration is advancing its efforts to address racial disparities in healthcare by introducing a plan to give priority to low-income patients for kidney transplants.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra has proposed a pilot program that would incentivize hospitals to prioritize low-income patients by awarding them more points in the transplant process.
This initiative aims to address racial inequities and encourage hospitals to focus on serving marginalized communities.
While the proposal focuses on income as a factor, Becerra has emphasized that the scoring system is intended to address racial concerns in healthcare.
In his statement announcing the proposal, Becerra said it further evidence of how the Biden regime was taking “concrete steps to remove racial bias … in the transplant process.”
“The organ transplant industry, like every other part of society, is not immune to racial inequities,” he said. “Black Americans disproportionately struggle with life-threatening kidney disease, yet they receive a smaller percentage of kidney transplants.”
“The Biden-Harris administration is taking concrete steps to remove racial bias when calculating wait times and rooting out profiteering and inequity in the transplant process.”
This isn’t the first instance where the Biden administration has aimed to give priority to the healthcare needs of minority groups in America. In 2022,
The administration was giving certain racial or ethnic groups preferential access to monoclonal antibodies, oral antivirals, and other COVID-19 treatments.
President Biden also acknowledged that the pandemic highlighted the presence of “structural racism” within American society.
“This pandemic is shining a light on so many inequities in our society — the lack of paid sick leave for workers, the need for stronger unemployment insurance, the necessity for a livable minimum wage,” he wrote back in 2020.
“Unsurprisingly, it’s also amplifying the structural racism that is built into so much of our daily lives, our institutions, our laws, and our communities.”
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More proof of Biden regime racism.
Nicholas, I agree 1000% but you won’t hear a word from the MSM.
Just imagine if he wanted to prioritize whites for transplant, he is a half wit !
Just more racism from the goobermint, an organization which is supposed to be nondiscriminatory. I read it “somewhere”… All men were created equal…
Only some are more equal. (G. Orwell.)
Isn’t that just another form of Racism? Every transplant opportunity should receive equal consideration.
He has NO say at all! He is not a doctor and he is not in the medical field.if by a chance he passes a bill that allows him to ,when Trump comes back he will get rid of it along with manny manny of his idiotic bills!