New Mexico Bill Would Fund Anti-White Program to Fight Healthcare Shortage
Jose Nino
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A piece of legislation in New Mexico is making progress in the State House, which has the goal of tackling a major healthcare worker shortage by allocating $1.1 million to a university diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program.
On January 23, 2024, the House Health and Human Services Committee voted by a 9-1 margin in favor of House Bill 35. This bill was sponsored by Democrat State Representative Pamelya Herndon and Cristina Parajon.
The bill would allocate $1,178,286 to the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for a program that has the aim of promoting “cultural diversity” in healthcare.
The DEI office’s Communities to Careers program offers support and resources to help “learners from all walks of life, particularly students who identify as BIPOC, LGBTQ+, disabled, first-generation college attendees and other underrepresented groups” embark on healthcare careers, per its website.
Further, the program sponsors a Black Health Care Careers Expo “to inspire African American youth to explore health career pathways.”
Valerie Romero-Leggott, executive diversity, equity, and inclusion officer for the UNM Health Sciences Center, informed The College Fix in a statement that the bill will assist in tackling a major statewide gap in healthcare.
“With New Mexico short thousands of health care workers, it is encouraging to see the NM Legislature consider funding long-standing, dedicated programs that help close that gap and improve the health and well-being of our communities,” she stated in an email.
Healthcare issues that are popping up in states like New Mexico are the product of flawed government policies, not because of a lack of diversity. In fact, by trying to use racial standards, as opposed to meritocratic standards much less deregulating the healthcare sectors, this situation will only get worse.
In the end, the institutionalization of anti-white policies will put the United States on the path to Third World nation status.
States like New Mexico need to go back to basics and start getting the state out of the way of sectors such as healthcare.
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