After a week of vacation, it’s nice to see that the first post-racial presidency turns out to be like a soap opera: Even if you don’t look at a newspaper for a few days, when you do finally open one you find that nothing has changed with the Agent of Change.

Hold on to your seats because this is gonna shock you: The Washington Times reports that the health-care bill is loaded with racial bias — camouflaged, naturally, in laughable social science since “2012 down-payment for my peeps” is probably not an explanation that would play well with all those townhall “mobsters” and “nazis” from whom the said down-payment is to be extracted:

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights says some little-noticed provisions in the House health care bill are racially discriminatory, and it intends to ask President Obama and Congress to rewrite sections that factor in race when awarding billions in contracts, scholarships and grants. The commission also fears the programs, which are designed to improve health care in underserved areas, will not be effective.
In a draft of a letter … the group raises constitutional questions about giving preferential treatment to minority students for scholarships, and about favoring medical schools and organizations that have a record of sending graduates to areas with inadequate health care services. “These programs are unlikely to reduce health care disparities among racial and ethic groups[.] … A growing body of evidence indicates that increasing access to high-quality physicians – whatever their racial or ethnic ancestry – is the best way to mitigate such disparities.”
The draft letter also cites testimony from Dr. Amitabh Chandra of Harvard University who said the idea that expanding the number of minority physicians and providing “cultural competence training” will bridge the health status gap is “grounded in hope more than science.”… Dr. Chandra that found that improving the quality of health care in the 500 largest minority serving areas would improve minority health care more than the elimination of racial disparities within every provider in the U.S….