Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear is pushing to give black folks precedence over white folks. Beshear claims that COVID-19 kills minorities at double the rate that it kills non-minorities. He feels that this stat combined with the protests has convinced him that he needs to take action to bring about more equality in his state by putting blacks first and giving them free healthcare.
“The Democratic Kentucky governor vowed to begin working toward tangible changes in the state’s health care system, focusing on a three-pronged approach to improving health care for “everybody.” Beshear said coverage, access and quality are the main components of his push to reduce inequality along racial and socio-economic lines. Echoing the promises of many progressive federal lawmakers, Beshear said Monday during his daily coronavirus press conference he believes “health care is a basic human right.”
“In our health care system, the inequalities have been laid bare, have been exposed by this COVID-19 epidemic, and the results of inequality in health care have been shown — it’s death. By allowing this type of inequality to exist for as long as it has, we see African Americans dying at twice the rate that they make up of the population.
“It shouldn’t have taken this type of pandemic, or it shouldn’t have taken these types of demonstrations for us to commit to ending it,” the governor said.
“It’s time for prioritization in black and African American communities, so we’re going to do that,” the governor stated. “My commitment today is we are going to begin an effort to cover 100% of our individuals in our black and African American communities. Everybody. We’re going to be putting dollars behind it. We’re going to have a multifaceted campaign to do it.”
Taxpayers fund the government whether it be the businesses or the citizens of the state. So it’s the taxpayers that would really be footing this bill. But if the plan is to have free healthcare, then why not for all Kentucky citizens? You can’t have equality by favoring one particular race over another. That’s not what equal means.
End black privilege.
What an idiot..
sorry dude, that is called reverse discrimination and it will not fly, you will be getting lawsuits up the wazoo..it doesn’t matter the color of their skin, it is about their character and whether they can do the job
The KY governor is who Rand Paul called an idiot on TV during a Fox interview a week or so ago. Seems Rand hit it right on the head with his description.
What a perfect way to inject SOCIALISM..WTG Gov.. !!! Idiot..
WTG Gov… Nice way to slide in Socialism… IDIOT.. ! I don’t think taxpayers are going to like that one bit.!!
If I were you ..I’d look for another day job…
As long as only Kentucky taxpayers are footing the bill, not the other taxpayers through fed money.
Great idea, and it will save Kentuckians from having to come up with a fake Tennessee address to get on our Medicaid!
I agree with Obama’s boyfriend this is utter stupidity Look it ip George Floyd had a criminal record 6 feet long including robbing an old lady and sticking a gun in her face! He just finally got what he had coming
he may have had it coming he was not a good guy, but he or any other person white or black deserve what he got from that bad cop who caused all this chaos and damage (ONE COP). that cop made George Floyd look like a saint. i agree police reform is necessary mainly weed out, and expose and fire and or arrest bad cops and clean up ALL police departments.
GETTING RID OF THE POLICE WILL ONLY LET CRIME AND MURDERS RUN RAMPANT!
This is pure racism giving one rays preference over another race is racism what’s wrong with this idiot follow the Constitution you dummy