Can government make all people equally healthy? The U.S. Health and Human Services Department has announced a new plan aimed at doing precisely that. The HHS "action plan" will allegedly "reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic minorities." A "health disparity" is defined as "a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage." While the HHS plan correctly points out that minorities generally suffer poorer health and lower access to good medical care than do white Americans, the plan's "action steps" are wrong-headed out of the starting gate. The solutions rely on Obamacare, which mandates that tens of millions more Americans be ingested into a cost-controlled system which will react to new economic realities. Care providers, pharmaceutical companies, and device manufacturers will compensate for what amounts to government-mandated low to no profits by...(Read Full Post)