It can be helpful to be able to track medical trends within an ethnic group, or to focus on certain diseases that only affect a specific group (e.g. sickle cell in the Black community). Unfortunately, that same data in the wrong hands becomes a problem.
And you can’t effectively fight racial bias, or judge how well your efforts to fight it are going, if your data set doesn’t include information on race.
Or, as the US government put it:
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care and health outcomes have been well documented. Such disparities are particularly relevant for Medicaid given that more than half of the program’s 73 million beneficiaries identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American, or another non-white race or ethnicity. Addressing disparities and promoting equity in coverage, access, experience, and outcomes among historically marginalized and underserved populations will depend in part on having complete and systemically collected data by race and ethnicity. Source.
If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it, as the saying goes.
Exactly. You can’t just go off of vibes or self-reporting.
It sucks that the data needed to be collected at all, but it’s not the fault of people who actually cared that fascists are now taking their work and using it to further fascism.
As not yankee, why is ethnicity even stored in that database??
Straight answer:
Shitlibs had to add means testing to all social programs and had to collect data saying xyz group was underserved and also had a data fetish.
Race is somewhat relevant to medical care. I forget why?
It can be helpful to be able to track medical trends within an ethnic group, or to focus on certain diseases that only affect a specific group (e.g. sickle cell in the Black community). Unfortunately, that same data in the wrong hands becomes a problem.
Fwiw, Asians are lactose intolerant. Scandinavians are more prone to diabetes and cystic fibrosis.
Straight answer:
Shitlibs had to add means testing to all social programs and had to collect data saying xyz group was underserved and also had a data fetish.
No of course this coukd never be abused; we made a law saying not to!
Alternate, less hostile interpretation:
Non-white patients have across the board received worse medical care and had worst medical outcomes than white patients. The American medical system is racially biased. That’s not identity politics, that’s statistics.
And you can’t effectively fight racial bias, or judge how well your efforts to fight it are going, if your data set doesn’t include information on race.
Or, as the US government put it:
If you don’t measure it, you can’t manage it, as the saying goes.
Exactly. You can’t just go off of vibes or self-reporting.
It sucks that the data needed to be collected at all, but it’s not the fault of people who actually cared that fascists are now taking their work and using it to further fascism.
Missing the real question that we all know the answer to: why are they asking?
According to the blood donor ppl, it helps to give ppl similar blood. I dk how much bs that is. That’s just what they told me.
It is BS. Blood typing exists.
Are the same people saying they have nothing to hide?