Coming to America: New Zealand’s woke health careBy Dr. Stanley Goldfarb
June 21, 2023
What’s the woke endgame in health care?
The answer is as shocking as it is un-American.
Activists want doctors and nurses to discriminate against patients by race.
To put a finer point on it: They want white and Asian patients to be pushed to the back of the line while giving preferential access to black and Hispanic patients.
This demand is a direct threat to patient health. And it’s closer to happening than you think.
To see what’s coming, look at New Zealand.
It’s an English-speaking country that’s grappling with the same woke activism as the United States.
Since February, surgeons in Auckland — New Zealand’s biggest city — have been forced to consider a patient’s race when deciding who’s eligible for an operation.
If you’re the right color, you get a faster surgery. If you’re the wrong color, you may have to wait.
Naturally, New Zealand surgeons aren’t happy with this injustice.
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What’s happening in New Zealand is a warning for America.
In fact, the proverbial camel’s nose is already under the tent.
Look at Harvard Medical School’s prestigious teaching hospital, Brigham and Women’s.
It has already proposed to provide “a preferential admission option for Black and Latinx heart failure patients.”
Administrators may as well have come out and said: We will prioritize patients based on skin color.
And that already happened during COVID. Multiple states and hospital systems made race a factor in deciding who got access to potentially life-saving treatments.
Tellingly, this obvious racial discrimination was met by a collective yawn from the medical establishment.
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Source:
https://nypost.com/2023/06/21/coming-to-america-new-zealands-woke-health-care/
