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Where are you getting your data? Here's what I found. It doesn't seem to support your analysis.

Criminal Justice outcomes are also widely accepted as being worse for non-whites, as well as health outcomes. Granted, much of this is due to poverty which you can pretend is not related to race, despite boatloads of evidence to the contrary.

What some cursory evidence does seem to indicate is that the gap between outcomes for different races is narrowing, slowly. This is probably what your really noticing.

I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your just ignorant, not racist.

Let me Google that for you. The first result was a professional association for male nurses, so I'll skip that.

Male Nurses Break Through Barriers to Diversify Profession

Enhancing Diversity in the Workforce

Man Enough: Recruiting Men into Nursing School

Hope that helps!

(It turns out the nurse shortage is so real that they are actually trying to fix this gripe, and salaries are rising as one would expect in response to the demand, unlike in a certain industry. Iow, you're not necessarily wrong in a general sense, but please choose a different example. The are so many to choose from!)

Nobody's asserting that there's a "glut of men" in nursing. Archangel Michael suggested that "why does nobody seem to care about the lack of men in nursing?" To which serviscope_minor replied, "Whenever somebody says this, people show how that's false, and that people DO care about the lack of men in nursing, and you can't have missed this, as you've been around Slashdot for a while. Google, chump."

And he's right - people DO care about the lack of men in nursing. You just don't hear about it here in your insular little slashdot bubble.

There's even an organization dedicated to, and I quote from their own statement of their positions:

[...]
2. AAMN exists and is organized to promote the recruitment and retention of men in nursing. We are actively working to position AAMN as the voice for men in nursing, able to speak the needs of and contributions by men as a targeted demographic.

3. AAMN has been organized for more than three decades. Today we are a vitalized professional nursing organization with a rapidly growing membership base. We are vibrant and prospering.

[...]

7. AAMN will further expand on its expertise on men in nursing and promote gender diversity and inclusion. This will lead to improved gender balance in nursing schools and the workforce, gender retention, and gender opportunity.

Yep, there's nobody who cares about the lack of men in nursing at all. You sure nailed it.

Well, except for this, headlined "Male Nurses Break Through Barriers to Diversify Profession," with a sub-heading of: "Advocates call on men to join the nursing profession to create a more diverse nursing workforce and help curb a projected shortage of nursing that threatens to undermine care."

And this, with an abstract that reads: "This literature review examines the ability of the nursing profession to recruit and retain men in nursing schools and in the nursing workforce. The authors consider such educational barriers as role stress, discrimination, and stereotyping, and explore questions of male touch and the capacity of men to care. In identifying challenges faced by men entering or working in a profession in which women predominate, the authors hope to promote actions on the part of nurse leaders, educators, and researchers that may address issues of sex bias and promote greater sexual diversity within nursing."

Yep, nobody at all cares about the lack of men in nursing. Except the nationwide organization dedicated to it with upwards of 2000 members. And the various articles, both scholarly and popular, which are written about the problem.

Anybody who claims that "there's never any outcry" over this is ignorant, and guilty of not having performed even the most cursory research. Anybody who *remains* ignorant does so willfully, and loses any possible grant of rationality or logic to their arguments.

I'm skeptical of any anecdotes I hear about obamacare. On top of the fact that anecdotes aren't real evidence, there have been several well-publicized obamacare horror stories that have turned out to be far-right funded lies.

The other way is also true. The "strong evidence" that obamacare is going to make many more startups doesn't seem to be much more than a theory. Here's the study they're referring to. Seems odd that they don't show self-employment increasing in Massachusetts, given that Romneycare is basically Obamacare and happened there eight years ago.

If you didn't mean what I said then I apologize.

However I see a problem with your post I replied to.
ANY reform on medical costs is worth it. several OB-GYN and and an anesthesiologist that I know (none with any previous issues) are paying over 100K/year for malpractice. That is outrageous.

According to more than one study medical malpractice adds little to the cost of health care, .5% is sited.

Falcon

What is really sad is that it had NOTHING TO LOWER COSTS. We are in need of tort reform (how much money is paid out for lawsuits); costs of the docs eduction; costs of the drugs; costs of the hospital; etc.

Where is your evidence lawsuits are responsible for soaring health care costs? Understanding medical malpractice insurance: A primer [pdf] estimates that lawsuits cost less than half a percent of total health care spending.

Falcon

On the topic of no one actually informing themselves, here is an interesting and very accessible article on the impact of malpractice insurance:

http://www.rwjf.org/pr/synthesis/reports_and_briefs/pdf/no10_primer.pdf

No, no -- the U.S. spends more per capita (not per-patient) treating only the old and the poor than Canada spends per capita treating every citizen, including the old and the poor. See for example this comparison made in 2005, based on 2002 figures from OECD countries. It appears that one reason is that administrative costs are roughly three times higher, per capita, in the U.S. than in Canada. There are other more recent comparisons available but the numbers don't differ substantially.

I think you were trying to say that it's unreasonable to compare costs-per-patient in the U.S. Medicare and Medicaid systems with costs in Canada's (or any other OECD country's) national health care system where every citizen is a "patient" including the young. You would be right, except that's not the comparison the parent post was making.

I have nothing to hide, I'm no alcoholic,

If you ever have more than 2 standard drinks a day (for a man) or 1 (for a woman) in the eyes of many who have a lot more power than you think you are an alcoholic.

Such as these people:

http://www.rwjf.org/