this seems to be "why i read salon" day. i need to send these people money.



Salon.com Life | Bush's band-aid approach

"Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day" is a crusade that essentially pins the problem of healthcare disparities on the patients, as if they were somehow responsible for a healthcare system that often gives them second-rate care or shuts them out altogether. By preaching the virtues of checkups and offering redemption to minorities identified as medical slackers, Thompson ignores the roots of healthcare inequities -- poverty, institutional racism, lack of funding, and the shortage of services in minority communities -- and shifts the blame to the victims. He also sidesteps the very sticky matters of bias in the largely white medical profession, and the failure of HHS to enforce civil rights in healthcare.