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.
And how did all that data collection do with mitigating racial bias? Most of my poc friends won’t even go to a hospital consensually, before this shit went down.
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.
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.
And how did all that data collection do with mitigating racial bias? Most of my poc friends won’t even go to a hospital consensually, before this shit went down.
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.
You dont need to collect fuvking data umless you’re means testing everything.
If you just stop the class based rationing, you do not need to do that.