Bill Clinton said he wanted a cabinet that “looked like America,” and now the powers at UMass have decreed that they want a medical profession that looks like Massachusetts.

I wonder what the people who are included in the preferred groups think about this. Do Massachusetts residents who happen to be “African-Americans, Hispanics, certain Southeast Asians, and Cape Verdeans, Brazilians, and other Portuguese speakers” care whether the doctors who treat them are from the same group they are, or whether the medical profession in the state has percentages of doctors that match the percentages of these racial and linguistic groups? Or do they just want the best doctors they can find?

Here’s my wild guess: Ordinary people couldn’t care less about the composition of the medical profession. This is an obsession confined to the political elites.