Diversity is healthcare reform's worst enemy. White America has never liked social insurance for people of color
"From the beginning, attempts to create a universal welfare state in the U.S. have been thwarted by the fears of voters that they will be taxed to subsidize other Americans who are unlike them in race or ethnicity or culture. The original Social Security Act passed only after domestic workers and farmworkers -- the majority of black Americans, in the 1930s -- were left out of its coverage, at the insistence of white Southern politicians. excerpt http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/15/race/ <http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/09/15/race/>
