The Fetid Underbelly

by digby

The other night I posted a comment from some wingnut saying that health care reform was being formulated to put unhealthy, undeserving Blacks and Hispanics ahead of the more responsible Whites in the health care system. It illustrated some of the most long standing prejudices in America, going all the way back to the beginning, when racists first decided that any kind of public welfare would mean taking the money of white people to help undeserving blacks. Our racist element has been one of the fundamental reasons why we differ from other industrialized countries in this respect.

Here’s the more, shall we say, simple argument:

Via TPM:

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