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Gabrielle Cusumano on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 11:40:27 AM
“The bill includes racial preferences. Under the Democrats’ health care bill, if a medical school wants to increase its chances of receiving many different kinds of grants and contracts from the federal government, it should have a demonstrated record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups.”
July 21, 2009
Racial Preferences in the Democrats' Health Care Bill
"All 1,018 pages of the Democrats' health care bill can be inspected here. The bill includes racial preferences. Under the Democrats' health care bill, if a medical school wants to increase its chances of receiving many different kinds of grants and contracts from the federal government, it should have a demonstrated record of training individuals who are from underrepresented minority groups. This is because the Democrats' health care bill requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to give preference to the entities that have demonstrated such a record in the awarding of these contracts to medical schools and other institutions..." American Thinker http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/racial_preferences_in_the_demo_1.html
1) PROGRAM EVALUATIONS.—An entity that
20 receives a grant under this section shall annually
21 evaluate, and submit to the Secretary a report on,
22 the activities carried out under the grant and the
23 outcomes of such activities. Such outcomes may in24
clude—
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1 (A) an increased number of incumbent
2 workers entering an accredited school of nurs3
ing and in the pipeline for nursing programs;
4 (B) an increasing number of graduating
5 nurses and improved nurse graduation and li6
censure rates;
7 (C) improved nurse retention;
8 (D) an increase in the number of staff
9 nurses at the health care facility involved;
10 (E) an increase in the number of nurses
11 with advanced degrees in nursing;
12 (F) an increase in the number of nurse
13 faculty;
14 (G) improved measures of patient quality
15 (which may include staffing ratios of nurses,
16 patient satisfaction rates, patient safety meas17
ures); and
18 (H) an increase in the diversity of new
19 nurse graduates relative to the patient popu20
lation.