Study shows that Africa American have poorer care than whites when it comes to mental illness and certain other ailments, a study of patients enrolled in Medicare managed-care plans suggests. The study involved 305,574 patients in more than 200 Medicare managed care plans in 1997. Africa American were 20% less than whites to receive follow-up care after being hospitalized for mental illness, 10% less to receive commonly used beta blockers after heart attacks, and 7% less to receive eye exams. Those evidence that we have racial inequities in government's benefit. People who have the equal opportunity but they do not equal condition.
This article has a very similar opinion with "An American Dilemma". "An American Dilemma" talks about the conflicts of "American Creed". "Americans of all national origins, classes, regions, creeds, and colors, have something in common: a social ethos, a political creed. It is difficult to avoid the judgment that this American Creed is the cement in the structure of this great and disparate nation." For example, everyone has the right to speak anything that he wants, due to the bill of rights. However, he cannot tell other person's secret to the public because the other person has the right of privacy. Contract it to the "Blacks get Poorer Care" article. Both white patients and black patients have the same right for getting the Medicare, and also the government officer has the right to make his own decision to give benefit to those patients or not, by looking at their income est. Basely saying is the unequal ability or equal ability of condition and opportunity. .