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Guest Commentator

Charles Jaco

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Charles Jaco is a journalist, author, and activist. Follow him on Twitter at @charlesjaco1. David A. Love, JD Managing Editor: Nancy Littlefield, MBA Publisher: Peter Gamble

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Guest Commentary

The Racist Republican Health Care Hustle

By Charles Jaco Guest Commentator

Race has always colored the views of conservative whites when it comes to universal access to health care. A mammoth 2015 study by Cornell Medical Center in New York and the University of Maine found that the primary predictor as to whether someone opposes universal health care is racial prejudice.

If America were an all-white country, we would have had universal health care decades ago. Even though cancer, heart disease, and diabetes are color-blind, conservative whites…

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